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12Nov

Healthy Food, Healthy Generation

At Lilit Kindergarten, nestled in the heart of Gyumri, Armenia, is focused on nurturing not just young minds, but young bodies as well. Serving 95 children, Lilit is one of 24 kindergartens operating in this northern region, where resources may be scarce, but the commitment to children’s well-being is abundant.

Ashken, a mother of three, speaks with heartfelt gratitude about the positive changes she’s seen since her youngest, Arsen, began attending Lilit. Like many parents, she was initially concerned about how a modest preschool could provide a child with the proper nutrition.

04Nov

Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and CRS–United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

To improve and develop social housing policy in Armenia, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and CRS–United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Under this document, the parties committed to joining efforts to support the continuous development of Armenia’s social housing fund and its management. Within this cooperation, a pilot program is planned, which will create an opportunity to apply the positive experience of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina by localizing a successful, sustainable, and self-sufficient model of social housing provision in Armenia.

Following the signing of the memorandum,

28Oct

Price quotation for a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV)

October 28, 2024

Armenian Caritas is a charitable non-governmental organization that has been operating in the Republic of Armenia since 1995. It currently implements various programs in the following strategic directions: social protection, community development, migration and integration, resilience to emergency situations.

Starting from October 2024, Armenian Caritas has been implementing the project “Building Bridges: Socio-Economic Integration and Resilience for Refugees and Local Communities in Armenia”, the goal of which is to foster socio-economic integration and resilience building of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and local communities in Armenia,

11Oct

Expert Needed for Developing a Training Module and Providing Training of Trainers (ToT)

Objective: To raise awareness of gender equality and disability inclusion within volunteer first responder services

Title of the project: Institutionalising a Volunteer First Responder Service in Armenia (VolFiRe)

Country: / Location: Armenia / countrywide

Date of the Action: 01.12.2022 – 31.08.2025

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 Rescue Service (RS) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

07Oct

Three-day training on the topic of “Rights, Communication, and Accessibility of Information of Persons with Disabilities”

In the frames of the “Institutionalization of Voluntary First Response Service in the Republic of Armenia “(VolFiRe)” program, implemented by the Armenian Red Cross Society, within the “Inclusion and Gender Analysis of Persons with Disabilities” component, carried out by Armenian Caritas, a three-day training on the topic “Rights, Communication, and Accessibility of Information of Persons with Disabilities” was held. The training was facilitated by Mushegh Hovsepyan, the president of the ”Disability Rights Agenda” NGO.

During the training, topics such as main disability models, effective communication and ethics, accessibility of information, and easy-to-read formats were discussed.

The purpose of the training was to provide participants with knowledge about presenting the information in accessible formats,