Braille panels for sight-impaired people installed at Zvartnots museum complex
12.12.2009 16:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/

Braille panels for sight-impaired people were installed at Zvartnots
museum complex.

Panels in five languages – Eastern Armenian, English, Russian,
Italian, French and also in Braille alphabet were installed by AMAP
NGO in the frame of its project `Armenia in Braille’. The goal of the
project is to facilitate the integration of sight-impaired and blind
people into the society and enable them to easily get acquainted to
Armenian monuments. In addition to Zvartnots panels in Braille
alphabet will be installed in Garni, Geghard, Amberd, Areni, Noravank,
Noratus, Khor Virap, Sevanavank, Goshavank, Haghpat, Tatev, as well as
in the historical center of Gyumri and near `Zorac Karer’ (Karahundj).

The project is sponsored by USAID/CAPS, the Honorary Consul for Italy
in Gyumri and VivaCell-MTS.

`People with special needs must have equal opportunities and
conditions for communicating with our ancient culture, and we are
responsible for creating such conditions for them. This project is
unique in terms of enabling sight-impaired and blind people to get
acquainted to the history of Armenia’s historical-cultural sites’,
noted VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian.