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Tackling educational disadvantage in rural Armenia through arts

Project duration : 05.06.2022-31.07.2023

Location: Bayandur and Yerazgavors villages (Shirak region)

Number of beneficiaries: 100

Target group: children aged from 8 to 15 years

 

Goal: Facilitate the socialization of children aged 8 to 15 years and aid in the healing of traumas through aesthetic education and art therapy.

 

Overall objectives:

  • To ensure the accessibility of aesthetic education and art-therapy in project target locations for children aged from 8 to 15 years
  • To create inclusive environment
  • To provide an opportunity to visit cultural centers

 

Partnership for Syunik-Enhanced Community-based Social Services

Project Duration: 01.02.2023-31.01.2026

Location: Syunik province of RA

Project Purpose: Contribution to development of more resilient system of social protection in Syunik province, by supporting sustainable financing of community-based social services that better serve the needs of the country’s most vulnerable people, thus reducing poverty, inequality, and vulnerability.

 

Project Description: Aimed at sectoral reforms, the “Partnership for Syunik-Enhanced Community-based Social Services” project closely cooperates with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure, all 7 municipal governments of Syunik province,

“ARAMAZD: Social Economy and Employability Development” project

Project Duration: 2022-2025

Number of Beneficiaries: Local State Government, CSO, SME, VET representatives and active youth.

Location: Shirak, Lori and Gegharkunik Provinces of RA

Goal: To contribute to the promotion of social economy and employability among the population of the unified bordering communities of Gegharkunik (Vardenis), Lori (Alaverdi), and Shirak (Ani) Provinces of RA.

 

Description: “ARAMAZD: SEED” project offers community socio-economic rehabilitation and activation program, which will continue in 2022-2025. The logic of all the implemented actions, promoting economic and civic development processes,

Institutionalising a Volunteer First Responder Service in Armenia (VolFiRe)

Project Duration: 01.12.2022-31.08.2025

Location: Kotayk, Lori, Armavir, Ararat, Shirak, Gegharkunik, Syunik, Vayoc Dzor, Tavush, Aragatsotn Regions

Project Purpose: To contribute to strengthening population protection systems in the regions of Armenia through volunteer capacity.

 

Project Description: From December, 2022 Armenian Red Cross Society partnering with Armenian Caritas, started implementing “Institutionalising a Volunteer First Responder Service in Armenia (VolFiRe)” project.

The Civil Protection system in Armenia is currently mainly based on professional responders from governmental institutions. They are to a large extent on-duty firefighters and other paid staff of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES).