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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,

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.

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.

“Healthy mentality-healthy family”

Disaster Preparedness as a First Step to Sustainable Development

SO THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED

Irony of Fate

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