HAYASTAN ALL-ARMENIAN FUND’S TELETHON 2008 TO START ON NOVEMBER 27 IN LOS ANGELES
Noyan Tapan
Nov 26, 2008
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s
Telethon 2008 will be held on November 27 in Los Angeles. This year
also the raised funds will be aimed at Armenian and Artsakh rural
development programs.
As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Fund’s Public Relations
Department, more than 50m families, 40m out of which in the U.S.,
will have a possibility to follow telethon’s broadcasting all over the
world. It was mentioned that the amount of money raised as a result
of the telethon carried out since 1996 grows year by year. During the
17 years of its activity the Fund has implemented programs amounting
to over 185m dollars.
The general sponsor of Telethon 2008 is VivaCell-MTS, the sponsors are
Ardshininvestbank, Haypost, ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK, the information
sponsor is the Public Television of Armenia.
It should be mentioned that a promise of donation of 1.2m euros
was given in the European phonethon preceding the telethon, held on
November 13-16 in France, which exceeded phonethon’s previous year’s
index by 80 thousand euros.