03Dec

Mr. Jirayr Habibian

Mr. Habibian, a Masters graduate of St. Joseph’s University of Beirut, has been a member of the Lebanese Bar since 1996 and was admitted to the Armenian Bar in 2013. Fluent in Arabic, English, French and Armenian.

Having trained with the law firm Farid Halim El Khoury, specialising in Banking and Corporate Law, he left the firm in 2000 as a Junior Partner to take up a senior position with Standard Chartered Bank where he succeeded in continually challenging roles for seven years. Initially appointed as Regional Head of Legal and Compliance (Levant), Mr. Habibian was later relocated to Dubai to lead the Financial Crime Risk division for the bank’s wholesale operations in the Middle East and Pakistan region and eventually became the Head of Legal and Compliance for a significant region within the Gulf and Levant.

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01Dec

PROJECT MANAGER: SMALL GROUP HOUSE

Armenian Caritas implements family oriented support for children and their families in critical circumstances in five “Little Prince” Day Care Centers since 2009. Based on the gained experience Armenian Caritas will continue creating and developing community-based services for vulnerable children and their families. Community-based systems are essential and need to be expanded. Therefore, we will establish small group homes as substitutes for large institutions, intended for children whose homes are not conducive to the vital principles of development, nurture, support, and protection. The first Small Group House will be founded in Vanadzor for 10 children without parental care in April 2018.

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17Nov

TERMS OF REFERENCE for external evaluation of the project “Family oriented support for children and adolescent in critical circumstances”

Since the day of its establishment in 1995 “Armenian Caritas” has implemented numerous projects targeting children and their families. As a result of implementation of these projects “Armenian Caritas” came to the decision to continue its efforts to family-based support, keeping main focus on child care and protection in family environment. Creating day care social centers for children and families since 2009 “Armenian Caritas” provides community- based complex services to the disadvantaged children and parents by means of multi professional staff. Read More …>>

Project background:
Since the day of its establishment in 1995 “Armenian Caritas” has implemented numerous projects targeting children and their families.

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13Nov

Monica Khorotyan

Monica Khorotyan, has been selected as our Volunteer of the Month for October, 2017!

Monica has been volunteering in “Armenian Caritas” Gyumri Head Office since 2014. She is actively involved in administrative works and mainly helps with

“I volunteer because it continuously teaches me something new about people, about cooperation, about compassion, and about myself. In helping others, I am reminded that we are all in this together and we need to remember to support each other.

At the beginning of my volunteering I was not self-confident and in some cases may feel uncomfortable,

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