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11Nov

RECOVERY RESPONSE TO CONFLICT-AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS

Project duration: 15 months, 01.09.2021-30.11.2022

Project implementation area: The Republic of Armenia, Lori region

Direct beneficiaries:

  • Displaced households from Nagorno-Karabakh, temporarily or permanently living in Lori region,
  • Local households in Lori region, who lost their main breadwinner,
  • Local households in Lori region, whose main breadwinner acquired disability and incapability.

Number of beneficiaries: 150 households/ 750 individuals

Project goal:

Social and economic self-reliance of war-affected households was recovered.

Project description:

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01Nov

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Armenian Caritas Benevolent NGO in the framework of “CoNaKa: Covid-19 resilience in Armenia and Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict response” project
Call for the selection of a trainer/supervisor on post-traumatic psycho-social support

Project title CoNaKa: Covid-19 resilience in Armenia and Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict response
Place of implementation Republic of Armenia
Deadline for the applications 10.11.2021
Start date 20.11.2021
Duration Short-term Service contract
E-mail for applications l.stepanyan@caritas.am,
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31Oct

Innovation for Health

Project Duration: 01 July 2021-28 February 2022

Location: Republic of Armenia, Gegharkunik/Gavar, Shirak/Gyumri

Specific Objectives:

  1. To improve the health of vulnerable population groups through the provision of integrated care services
  2. To strengthen local health systems by increasing skills and knowledge of staff/volunteers/local stakeholders

Beneficiaries:

  • 60 vulnerable and socially isolated women and men
  • 20 Armenian Caritas staff members
  • 20 volunteers
  • 5 networking partners
  • 22 students of the nursing college

Goal:

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20Oct

Clean-up activities at Vardakar reservoir area

The water areas of Shirak region are polluted, in particular – the reservoirs. In the rural areas household waste is dumped into water channels reaching the reservoirs through water. Crops of the neighboring villages are irrigated with the polluted water.

Armenian Caritas volunteers and inhabitants of the nearby villages took the initiative to clean up the area of Vardakar reservoir. Large amounts of household waste and plastic waste were removed from the reservoir. Vardakar reservoir provides irrigation water to 7 villages of Artik region: Nor Kyanq, Vardakar, Horom, Hovtashen, Lusakert, Saratak and Hayrenyats. Waters from the highlands reach the reservoir through water channels passing through the villages.

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20Oct

Armenian Synod elects new Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia

The Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church, meeting this week in Rome, has elected Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian as the 21st Catholicos-Patriarch.

A ringing of bells in the patriarchal convent of Bzommar, Lebanon, announced the election of the Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics: His Beatitude Raphaël François Minassian.

He had served until now as the titular archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia of the Armenians and Ordinary for the Armenian Catholic faithful of Eastern Europe. His Beatitude Raphaël Bedros XXI is the President of Armenian Caritas.

The new Patriarch succeeds Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan,

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