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    PRESS RELEASE
    The Armenia Fund
    Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
    Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
    Tel: +(3741) 56 01 06 ext. 105
    Fax: +(3741) 52 15 05
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.himnadram.org/

    07 November 2007

    New School for Khashtarak

    Yerevan, 7 November, 2007. The `Hayastan' All-Armenian Fund, the Fund's
    Germany Affiliate and the Association of Armenian Entrepreneurs in Germany
    have finalized the details of Khashtarak community school reconstruction
    project as part of the Rural Development Program. The document signed
    outlines the project details and the implementation timetable. Thus, the
    Fund's Germany Affiliate `Armenien-Fonds Hayastan-Fonds' and the Association
    of Armenian Entrepreneur in Germany `Armenischer Unternehmer Verein' will
    sponsor the full restoration of Khashtarak village school.

    To raise funds for the project, the Association of Armenian Entrepreneurs in
    Germany has organized a charity concert in Yerevan's Opera House. The Fund's
    Germany Affiliate has organized a string of fundraisers including a mailing
    action in November invoking to support this project. The project will also
    feature prominently in the annual `Phonethon 2007' to be held November 15-18
    in Paris for a number of European countries.

    `We definitely want to raise the existing plank for this project', says
    `Hayastan' All-Armenian Fund Executive Director Vahe Aghabegians. `We need
    to eliminate the existing notions about rural schools by taking the
    standards and going one step further. No matter where the school is, it
    needs to have all the necessary material and human resources to conduct
    normal educational process. Rural schools can and must provide best possible
    schooling conditions for the children to receive appropriate education.'

    The finished school will come complete with spacious classrooms, modern gym,
    chemistry, computer labs etc. The school will also receive a gas supply and
    new heating system, courtesy of the Fund's Switzerland Affiliate, `Comité
    Suisse du Fonds Armenie'.
    Currently, some 251 children attend the school. The renovated school will
    have the capacity for around 600 students. This will make it accessible for
    children not only from Khashtarak but also the neighboring villages.
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