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Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
Governmental Building 3, Yerevan, RA
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Yerevan, November 12, 2012
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund donates encyclopedias to more than
20 schools in Armenia and Artsakh
On the twin occasions of Yerevan’s designation as the 2012 World Book
Capital and the 500th anniversary of Armenian printing, the Hayastan
All-Armenian Fund recently donated sets of history and natural-sciences
encyclopedias to over two dozen of schools in Armenia and one school in
Artsakh.
With this initiative, the fund has brought its participation to a slate of
pan-national events celebrating the legacies of Armenian printing and
literature, planned to be held across Armenia, Artsakh, and the diaspora
through April 23, 2013.
In recent years, the fund has donated books to several dozen community
institutions in towns and villages throughout Armenia and Artsakh. These
establishments, which the fund has built or renovated with the support of
the worldwide Armenian community, include schools, libraries, and cultural
centers.
Commenting on the critical importance of promoting educational excellence,
Ara Vardanyan, executive director of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, said,
“The fund’s latest book-donation project is part of our ongoing effort to
not only provide schoolchildren with bright and beautiful classrooms, but
inspire them with the love and curiosity which the Armenian people has
always shown toward learning, culture, and science, and which, along with
literary masterpieces, it has transmitted to us throughout its long history
of cultural preservation and survival.”
Vardanyan added that in order to lead to genuine progress, the continued
physical development of the homeland must be complemented by a concerted
effort to foster education and cultural vitality. “Hence our abiding wish to
help ensure that books are available to every student in the nation,”
Vardanyan said.
The fund’s latest book-donation project has benefited the following schools:
in Yerevan, the Stepan Zoryan (No. 56) School, Levon Shant (No. 4) School,
Yeghishe Charents (No. 67) School, Hayrapet Hayrapetyan (No. 78) School,
Mushegh Galshoyan (No. 148) School, Khrimyan Hayrik (No. 10) School, Vahan
Teryan (No. 60) School, Chekhov (No. 55) School, Khachik Dashtents (No. 114)
School, No. 45 School, No. 64 School, Nikol Aghbalyan (No. 19) School,
Olympus Educational Complex, and Special School (No. 8) for Children with
Speech Impediments; the Middle School of Baghramyan; the Gorky School (No.
5) of Echmiadzin; the Vergine Adamyan School of Lanjaghbyur Village,
Gegharkunik; the School of Ditavan Village, Tavush; the School of Artsni and
Chkalov Villages, Lori; and the Abovyan School of Shushi, Artsakh.