Project Duration: October 2024 – February 2025
Number of Beneficiaries: 150 households / approximately 600 persons
Location: Vardenis consolidated community, Gegharkunik Province, Armenia
Goal:
To improve the quality of life for displaced families and children by providing essential household appliances, stationery, warm clothing, and psychosocial support, fostering their resilience and integration.
Description:
The project aims to support 150 displaced families in the Vardenis community. Beneficiaries will receive essential household appliances, stationery, and warm clothing. At the same time,
Project Duration: 01.09.2024 – 01.09.2025
Number of Beneficiaries: 60 elderly and and/or people with disabilities from Nagorno Karabagh
Location: Artashat (Ararat Province)
Goal
This project contributes to alleviating the suffering of many displaced civilians inside Armenia and helps the different stakeholders in easing the burden caused by the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.
This project is a humanitarian project and it contributes to amelioration of Hungarian-Armenian relations.
This project contributes to assuring a more positive image of Hungary among the Armenians inside and outside Armenia.
At Lilit Kindergarten, nestled in the heart of Gyumri, Armenia, is focused on nurturing not just young minds, but young bodies as well. Serving 95 children, Lilit is one of 24 kindergartens operating in this northern region, where resources may be scarce, but the commitment to children’s well-being is abundant.
Ashken, a mother of three, speaks with heartfelt gratitude about the positive changes she’s seen since her youngest, Arsen, began attending Lilit. Like many parents, she was initially concerned about how a modest preschool could provide a child with the proper nutrition.
To improve and develop social housing policy in Armenia, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and CRS–United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Under this document, the parties committed to joining efforts to support the continuous development of Armenia’s social housing fund and its management. Within this cooperation, a pilot program is planned, which will create an opportunity to apply the positive experience of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina by localizing a successful, sustainable, and self-sufficient model of social housing provision in Armenia.
Following the signing of the memorandum,
October 28, 2024
Armenian Caritas is a charitable non-governmental organization that has been operating in the Republic of Armenia since 1995. It currently implements various programs in the following strategic directions: social protection, community development, migration and integration, resilience to emergency situations.
Starting from October 2024, Armenian Caritas has been implementing the project “Building Bridges: Socio-Economic Integration and Resilience for Refugees and Local Communities in Armenia”, the goal of which is to foster socio-economic integration and resilience building of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and local communities in Armenia,
Objective: To raise awareness of gender equality and disability inclusion within volunteer first responder services
Title of the project: Institutionalising a Volunteer First Responder Service in Armenia (VolFiRe)
Country: / Location: Armenia / countrywide
Date of the Action: 01.12.2022 – 31.08.2025
The Civil Protection system in Armenia is currently mainly based on professional responders from governmental institutions. They are to a large extent on-duty firefighters and other paid staff of the Rescue Service (RS) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
In the frames of the “Institutionalization of Voluntary First Response Service in the Republic of Armenia “(VolFiRe)” program, implemented by the Armenian Red Cross Society, within the “Inclusion and Gender Analysis of Persons with Disabilities” component, carried out by Armenian Caritas, a three-day training on the topic “Rights, Communication, and Accessibility of Information of Persons with Disabilities” was held. The training was facilitated by Mushegh Hovsepyan, the president of the ”Disability Rights Agenda” NGO.
During the training, topics such as main disability models, effective communication and ethics, accessibility of information, and easy-to-read formats were discussed.
The purpose of the training was to provide participants with knowledge about presenting the information in accessible formats,
| Task: | Organize a media campaign to raise public awareness on environmental issues (climate change, plastic pollution, etc.) and promote behavioral change on plastic use, use of solar energy and benefits of energy efficiency measures) |
| Project title: | Promotion of living conditions and health through the use of solar energy in marginalized households in the North of Armenia |
| Location: | Republic of Armenia |
| The deadline to submit proposals | October 14, |
Project Duration : 2021 – 2024
The project goal is:
Poverty alleviation through provision of an Integrated Support to Rural Development in building Viable Communities
- Objective 1: Enhance Community sustainability through rehabilitation of community infrastructures (irrigation systems, drinking water systems, pumping station, etc.)
- Objective 2: Improve Community economic sustainability through
- enterprise development – including set-up of small-scale agro-processing units by agricultural cooperatives/community active groups
- developing seed bank in communities by provision of potato, wheat and vegetable seeds to farmers on condition to handover part of the harvest to their neighbors
- on-farm thematic trainings on new agricultural technologies,
Project Duration: 24 months, 01.08.2023-31.12.2025
Project Location: Shirak region
Beneficiaries: Direct beneficiaries:
- women and young girls who are subject to domestic violence,
- women and young girls having disability,
- mothers and caregivers of CWD,
- young girls from poor families who can easily become victims of trafficking,
- single mothers,
- divorced women,
- mothers who have many children and whose husbands are unemployed,
- refugees and women from very poor families
Indirect beneficiaries:
Project duration : 01.07.2024-09.09.2024
Location: Bayandur, Yerazgavors and Getk villages (Shirak region)
Number of beneficiaries: 160
Target group: children aged from 6 to 16 years
Goal: The project aims to enhance the socialization and educational development of children aged 6 to 16 in border communities through aesthetic education, art therapy an English communication club.
Overall objectives:
- Provision of access to aesthetic education for children aged 6 to 16
- Improvment of English communication skills for 12- to 16-year-olds
- Increasement of the level of self-awareness and emotional literacy among children aged 6 to 16
Project Duration: 4 months
Number of Beneficiaries: 151 families
Location: Gyumri
Goal: To contribute to improved living conditions of 151 displaced families with 500 family members from Nagorno Karabagh
Description: The project will assist 151 families settled in Shirak region of Armenia with food and/or technical supplies vouchers. The focus of the project will be on the families consisted of 2 members or having less than 3 children, disabled persons, elderly.
Partners: CRS
Budget:
