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25Oct

Disaster Preparedness as a First Step to Sustainable Development

Disaster Preparedness as a First Step to Sustainable Development
(joint project in Armenia and Georgia by Caritas Romania)

Project Duration: 01.10.2016 – 30.09.2017

Location: Arapi, Voskehask, Jajur (Shirak province)

Background: Armenia and Georgia are both prone to different types of natural disasters, the most important amongst them floods, earthquakes and landslides. Maybe the best known example of disasters in the province is the Spitak earthquake from 1988, which killed about 25.000 persons. Disasters happen frequently affecting large groups of the population and causing important damages in infrastructure (transportation infrastructure,

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22Oct

SO THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED

Lena Habetnagyan was born in a family of workers, in Leninakan on April 15, 1930.

She has lost her parents in an early age. Being the eldest, Lena had two sisters and three brothers. Upon their parents’ death, Lena began to take care of her brothers and sisters. It was very difficult for Lena to attend school and take care for brothers and sisters at the same time. So the fourth grade was the last one for Lena.

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20Oct

Irony of Fate

In Harutyunyan’s large family from Karnut village a daughter Sofik Harutyunyan was born on August 31 of 1948: in the severe post-war years of Stalinism, in the same year when a well-known English novelist and journalist George Orwell wrote his “1984” novel where he mocks Stalinism and presents the process of oppression of an individual under totalitarism. Who could have thought that 1988, so close to 1984 would change Sofik’s life so drastically.

Sofik had two sisters and one brother.

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18Oct

HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support in the Post-Soviet Countries

HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support in the Post-Soviet Countries
(Armenia, Ukraine, Georgia)

Project Duration: 01. 07.2016 – 30. 06.2019
Beneficiaries: about 3,670 community members
Project Location: Shirak Province

The economic and social background of people living in villages, high level of unemployment, increased migration to the countries with high indicators of HIV as well as insufficient awareness level of transmission and prevention of the infection make the spreading of HIV in the region easier. The estimation of HIV registered cases of the RA is the highest in Shirak Province,

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11Oct

“Emili Aregak” Must be in my Life

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“Emili Aregak” Must be in my Life

Every time I find it hard to remember and tell funny stories about my 4 years of volunteering: they are too many. My every single day in ”Emili Aregak” 11enis an interesting and complete story, full of funny stories and life lessons.

It will be easier for me to answer the question of what volunteering has given me. Therefore, I would like to tell you a few words on how I was prior to my becoming a volunteer:

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