WITH USAID FINANCING FUND FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF FUNDAMENTALLY REPAIRS ANNEXES OF SPECIAL SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING DEFECTS AND HAKHTANAK VILLAGE HOSTEL
YEREVAN, MAY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. With the assistance of USAID the Fund
for Armenian Relief fundamentally repaired the annex of Yerevan special
school N 15 for children with hearing defects and dining-hall annex of
hostel in the village of Hakhtanak. Levon Lachikian, Spokesperson of
the Fund for Armenian Relief, said during the May 16 solemn ceremony
of putting the annexes into exploitation that both of the annexes were
repaired by the CESCO construction organization. At present 230 old
people live at the hostel of Hakhtanak village. 118 hostel employees
take care of them. The building that opened in 1980 hadn’t been
repaired by now. And special school N 15 for children with hearing
defects, which has 118 pupils, hadn’t been repaired for nearly 40
years. According to L.Lachikian, the subsidiary rooms and basement
of the special school were also repaired and it’ll be possible to
place sports equipments, to organize different games there. To recap,
in total the grant given by the USAID to the Fund for Armenian Relief
made 1.5 mln dollars. Repairs are being implemented in Yerevan boarding
school for children with vision defects, Nork and Gyumri hostels for
old people with this sum.