"OUR PLANET-YOUR STEP" – NEW RED CROSS PROJECT LAUNCHED IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.05.2009 17:48 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On May 8, Red Cross and Red Crescent International
Movement launches its new project in Yerevan. "Our World – Your Step"
is the title of the program aiming to raise public awareness and show
people ways of helping each other.
The program envisages organization of several functions dedicated
to the 150th anniversary of Red Cross and Solferino Battle, the
60th anniversary of Geneva Conventions and 90th anniversary of
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation. The function
participants will start with a march along central streets and reach
the State Conservatory park to see the exhibition of photos featuring
organization’s activities. There will also be a concert with the
participation of young musicians.
Within program frameworks, the book entitled "Recollections of
Solferino" (author: Henri Durant) was translated into Armenian.
"We bear collective responsibility for making our planet a better
place. Each of us can invest his efforts in general welfare,"
Chairman of Armenian IFRC office Soussana Haroutyunyan told an opening
news conference today. History of an Idea, a film dedicated to the
organization’s history, was screened during the event.