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  • AGBU SCDC Raises $38K for Karabakh Repopulation Centennial Project

    AGBU PRESS OFFICE
    55 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022-1112
    Phone (212) 319-6383
    Fax (212) 319-6507
    Email [email protected]
    Webpage www.agbu.org

    PRESS RELEASE
    Monday, April 5, 2004

    The AGBU Southern California District Committee (SCDC), led by its
    Chairman, Dr. Simon Simonian, organized many events and activities
    during the past three years to serve the local Armenian community. As
    a result of these many efforts, the Committee raised funds to support
    both local and global AGBU programs. Before recently handing over the
    reigns to the new Chairperson and Committee, Dr. Simonian took on one
    more activity that raised a total of $38,000, all of which will be
    allocated to the construction of a new, 120-student school in the
    Norashen region of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. This endeavor is
    part of AGBU's Karabakh Repopulation Centennial Project.

    AGBU established this project in recognition of the need to repopulate
    the Armenian villages in Karabakh and to provide humanitarian and
    agricultural relief to the Armenians already living there. Looking
    back to one of the earliest goals of the organization, namely reaching
    out to the rural Armenian populations in Ottoman provinces, the
    current project mirrors the very endeavor that took place almost a
    century ago. Today, many worldwide Chapters of the organization have
    enthusiastically adopted the Karabakh Repopulation program by taking
    on the construction of a school, community center or home.

    The war between Armenian and Azeri forces that took place between 1991
    and 1994 destroyed many villages and hundreds of homes, significantly
    diminishing the Armenian population in the Karabakh region. Through
    the efforts of AGBU's District Committee of France, a pilot program
    was initiated in the Norashen region of Karabakh to provide
    much-needed assistance to disadvantaged children, farmers and
    villages. To date, AGBU France has restored the utility infrastructure
    of the electricity and water supply, as well as the sewage system. In
    addition to building 20 residential homes and a school, the District
    Committee has also extended agricultural assistance to villagers,
    primarily through enhanced methods of generating dairy products and
    maintaining livestock.

    Due to the positive effects and outcomes of this pilot project, AGBU
    added several other villages to a list of those to receive aid,
    including Aygestan, Akn and Tumasar in the Hadrut region, with plans
    to expand into the Martakert region, as well. These efforts in the
    Nagorno-Karabakh Republic are an extension of the major programs
    maintained by AGBU in Armenia, including the six Soup Kitchens, the
    three Children's Centers, medical centers and the American University
    of Armenia.

    SCDC is just one of the AGBU Districts/Chapters that has pledged
    assistance to AGBU's Karabakh Repopulation Centennial Project. For
    more information on AGBU SCDC please visit their website:
    www.agbuca.org.
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