SECONDARY SCHOOL IN LERNAGOG RE-OPENS AFTER RECONSTRUCTION
Armenpress
Aug 28 2007
ARMAVIR, AUGUST 28, ARMENPRESS: As part of Comprehensive Rural
Development Program carried out by the Children of Armenia Fund (COAF)
secondary school in the Lernagog community of the Armenian province
of Armavir re-opened after reconstruction.
The school which is intended for around 250 pupils was reconstructed by
"Kanaka" company.
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian, who was participating in the
re-opening ceremony, said that it is a good present for the children
and parents of Lernagog.
Expressing gratitude to all those people who initiated and carried
out the program, the prime minister said that the fund is working
correctly and according to the demands of the time. The prime minister
assured that the Government of Armenia will always encourage this
and all those funds which will participate in the development of
rural territories as only development of Yerevan cannot ensure the
development of the whole country.
"We will have a developed state and well-being society if our
territories develop equally," the prime minister pointed out.
Underscoring the role of the president of the fund Karo Armen in
the implemented works, Serzh Sargsian awarded him Medal of the Prime
Minister of the Republic of Armenia.
The president of COAF said that unlike Yerevan the villages have much
more issues which refer to water supply, health, education, social
condition of the population. According to him, until the beginning
of the program the villages of Armavir where in desperate condition,
through joint survey with the local population they were able to
separate the sectors which needed more attention and from 2004 the
program of rural development kicked off in Karakert community.
During the implementation of the program COAF cooperated with
international organizations, donor organizations, sponsors. Making
investments amounting to around 800,000 USD the water supply to
Lernagog school was restored, the laboratory, library, music room, gym
have been reconstructed. It is also expected to provide 170 million
AMD for the reconstruction of two buildings of the school which are
not functioning as well as for restoration of local kindergarten and
medical ambulatory.
These works will be completed until the first quarter of 2008.
The goal of the COAF comprehensive rural development program is to
revive Armenia’s rural areas improving the living conditions of local
children and teenagers.
COAF has been established in 2000 by New-York-based Karo Armen and
is carrying out development programs in six villages of the Armenian
province of Armavir – Argina, Shenik, Karakert, Dalarik, Lernagog
and Myasnikian.