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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,

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.

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,

10Oct

Accompanying and Building Capacities in EU Aid Volunteers(ABC-EUAV)

Project Duration: December, 2019 – May, 2022

Goal: The goal of the Project is to strengthen the organizational and technical capacities in volunteer management, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and organizational emergency preparedness. As a result, stronger Caritas organizations in Eastern and South Eastern Europe will be able to actively support the strengthening of capacities and resilience of vulnerable or disaster-affected communities in their respective countries.

Description: ABC-EUAV unites nine European Caritas organisations from EU, Eastern and South-Eastern European countries with the overall objective of enhancing existing organisational capacities in the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and emergency preparedness,