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16Nov

Our Shant

Shant Demirjian is a Syrian-Armenian volunteer at “Armenian Caritas” Yerevan office and he is involved in the migration and trafficking related projects. Shant talks on the initiation and importance of volunteering in humanitarian sphere.

Shant left Kessab for Armenia, because of the civil war. The Armenian populated town of Kessab is situated in the North –Western part of Syria, in the Aleppo Region. Besides Kessab, 9 villages out of 13 were Armenian populated too. 8 Armenian churches with the affiliated schools were operating in Kessab Region. Shant’s life was full of Armenian spirit in Kessab. He attended Armenian school,

13Nov

Child Safeguarding Policy

Child Safeguarding Policy

Project duration: 01.06.2016 – 28.02.2017

Beneficiaries: “Armenian Caritas” beneficiaries (children, young people and their families), staff and volunteers.

Location: “Armenian Caritas” Child Care Centers.

Goal: To ensure the safety of children within all child-oriented projects through elaboration and application of the Armenian Caritas Child Safeguarding Policy.

Activities: “Armenian Caritas”

11Nov

The Earned House of an Honoured Woman

Horomsima Davtyan was born in 1929 in a family of a musician. She has born and raised in Ghukasyan village, attending the local school. Her father Stepan Davtyan was a musician and her mother was a housekeeper.

In 1944 after many years of living in the village, the family decided to move to Gyumri. Mrs. Horomsima began to work at Gyumri’s Textile factory. For about 5 months she was a trainee and then up to 1951 she worked there as a weaver.

03Nov

“Healthy mentality-healthy family”

“Healthy mentality-healthy family”

Location: Shirak region, Gyumri

Project Duration: since 2010 – 01.09.2012

Description:

The project “Healthy mentality-healthy family” is very unique in its type, emphasizing the importance of the formation of healthy families and raising of healthy generation, the value of the family and creation of the “third one” with the unity of “two”.

The ultimate goal is to emphasize the importance of the Holy Matrimony, the daily “work” to be done by the couples to maintain their families,

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,