13Nov

Child Safeguarding Policy

setREVStartSize({c: 'rev_slider_41_1',rl:[1240,1024,778,480],el:[],gw:[600],gh:[600],type:'carousel',justify:'',layout:'fullwidth',mh:"0"});if (window.RS_MODULES!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules["revslider411"]!==undefined) {window.RS_MODULES.modules["revslider411"].once = false;window.revapi41 = undefined;if (window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal!==undefined) window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal()} 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”
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11Nov

The Earned House of an Honoured Woman

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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

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20Oct

Irony of Fate

setREVStartSize({c: 'rev_slider_15_4',rl:[1240,1024,778,480],el:[],gw:[600],gh:[400],type:'carousel',justify:'',layout:'fullwidth',mh:"0"});if (window.RS_MODULES!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules["revslider154"]!==undefined) {window.RS_MODULES.modules["revslider154"].once = false;window.revapi15 = undefined;if (window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal!==undefined) window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal()} 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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