HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING DISCUSSION ON GENDER EQUALITY IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
02.04.2010 14:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Heifer Project International Armenian Branch Office
is organizing a Round Table/discussion on "Gender Equity and Rural
Women in Armenia" in Yerevan on April 6, 2010.

The participants are NGO and state representatives, community leaders
from rural communities of Armenia. The agenda includes presentations on
gender equity strategy of Heifer International, situational analysis of
rural women in Armenia, as well as working in groups at salient issues.

The deliverable of the Round Table will be recommendations to policy
makers in Armenia on gender equity with focus on rural population.

Heifer International is a non-profit, humanitarian organization
dedicated to ending world hunger and caring for the earth by providing
livestock, trees, training and other resources to help poor families
around the globe become self-reliant. Heifer International came
to Armenia in 1999. It has implemented over 45 projects in South
Caucasus, assisting more than 5000 families in Armenia, Georgia and
Azerbaijan to build their own family farms. Currently Heifer Armenia
has 19 ongoing projects among them 17 projects are being implemented
in Armenia and 2 projects in Georgia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress