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Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
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15 November, 2010
Iranian-Armenian community continues to breathe new life into Nrnadzor
With completion of latest project, border village is provided with
long-awaited water network
Yerevan, November 12, 2010 – Since 2007, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has
carried out far-reaching development projects in Nrnadzor, a village in
Armenia’s Syunik Region, thanks to the continued support of the
Iranian-Armenian community. With an opening ceremony on November 4, the fund
unveiled its sixth project in Nrnadzor, a newly constructed water network,
which was financed by the Executive Council of the Armenian Prelacy of
Tehran.
The new water-supply system consists of a 4.3-kilometer pipeline, two
reservoirs, a pump station, and a water main connected to the community’s 50
households.
“By living in this village despite so many difficulties, you’re helping
secure and strengthen the borders of the homeland, and that, in itself, is
an act of heroism,” said Aida Avanessian, chairperson of the Executive
Council of the Armenian Prelacy of Tehran, in her remarks during the opening
ceremony.
Also delivering congratulatory speeches were Armenian National Assembly
delegate Gagik Gevorgyan, Nrnadzor mayor Mkrtich Lazarian, community school
principal Susanna Grigoryan, representatives of the Armenian Prelacy of
Tehran, and Vardan Partamyan, head of the fund’s Projects and External
Relations Department.
As he welcomed the guests, Partamyan said, “Our fundraising slogan this year
is ‘Water Is Life.’ It conveys the basic fact that no community can grow
without water. We’re very happy that the vital issue of water has at last
been resolved in Nrnadzor.”
“It used to be very hard,” Nune Galstyan, a Nrnadzor resident who attended
the ceremony with her five children, told us during the event. “Now, thank
God, we have water. If only the village road were also taken care of, things
would be much better here.”
At the conclusion of the ceremony, the Iranian-Armenian benefactors
presented school bags to Nrnadzor’s 34 schoolchildren. They also promised to
donate books to the school library as well as those of neighboring villages
on their next visit.
Thanks to the generosity of the Iranian-Armenian community, Nrnadzor’s
central streets now have lighting, its farmers have a tractor, and
schoolchildren have unprecedented learning opportunities through their newly
established computer room, with access to the Internet. Two other projects,
sponsored by Iranian-Armenian benefactor Arbee Arzoumanian in memory of her
late husband, Khajag Arzoumanian, were the provision of furniture for the
recently built community school and the installation of a fence around the
campus.
Currently the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund is implementing two major
initiatives in the Syunik Region: the reconstruction of the Pediatric
Department of the Kapan Medical Center and the provision of furniture for
the Zangezur Cardiology Center, itself built by the fund.
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Hayastan All Armenian Fund
From: A. Papazian