MORE THAN 0 THOUSAND RAISED DURING TELETHON HELD FOR PURPOSE OF RAISING QUALITY OF ARMENIAN LESSONS AT AMERICAN STATE SCHOOLS
Noyan Tapan
July 21, 2009
GLENDALE, JULY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. On July 19 at 6-12 pm, the fund-raising
telethon, held for the purpose of raising the quality of Armenian
lessons at American state schools, was broadcast live on three Armenian
local channels, Horizon, AABC and Hayvision.
It was already the second marathon held by Davtian and Mariamian
educational institution and the whole money raised during it will be
given to the solution of problems of preservation of Armenian identity
and especially to the working out and publication of textbooks,
with the help of which more than 1000 Armenian pupils of 29 American
state schools of Glendale and its nearby towns will study their mother
tongue and culture.
According to the hayernaysor.am electronic newspaper, RA Minister of
Diaspora Hranush Hakobian greeted the participants of the marathon
in the live broadcast through a TV-bridge from Yerevan attaching
importance to the role of Davtian and Mariamian educational
institution in children’s education in the Armenian spirit and in
the difficult problem of preservation of Armenian identity. "The
Davtian and Mariamian Fund teaches Armenian to pupils at 29 American
schools, tries to make them faithful to their roots, community,
church. Thanks to their parents and teachers for sparing no efforts
in giving children education in the Armenian spirit," the Minister
noted in her speech. According to H. Hakobian, "it is the Armenian
school that ties with the language of the ancestors, with history,
with Armenian age-long history, it is in Armenian school where an
Armenian child likes and values them and realizes that he/she has a
homeland which is the land of Armenia."
The Minister also answered the questions addressed to her. The
questions referred to the Come Home program which is now working
at the RA Ministry of Diaspora, and within the framework of which
Armenian lads and girls visited Armenia.
The hall of the marathon with special warmth received the news about
00 donated by the RA Ministry of Diaspora.
The active participants of the telethon were not only the Armenians
of Los Angeles and Glendale, but also individuals from Yerevan with
not very big sums, who watched the telethon on July 20 at 6-12 am on
website of Horizon TV station, as well as
on the mindiaspora.am and hayernaysor.am electronic newspaper of the
RA Ministry of Diaspora. In total, more than 0 thousand was raised
during the telethon.