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    32 REFUGEE FAMILIES MOVE TO NEW APARTMENTS

    ArmenPress
    Dec 8 2004

    YEREVAN, DECEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: Another 32 refugee families have
    moved today in new apartments built by YMCA company on funds made
    available by the UNHCR Yerevan agency. The new block of flats have
    24 one-room and 8 two-room apartments. Until now these families lived
    in two local hostels. Another block of apartments is being built now
    by the Norwegian refugee Council (NRC). It will provide another 28
    families with apartments.

    According to Gagik Yeganian, the head of a government-affiliated
    department for refugees and migrants, the first condition for refugees'
    integration is having an apartment. Until now this problem has been
    solved with the help of international donor organizations. However,
    the government has approved a $17 million worth program for building
    apartments and cottages for refugees. When accomplished it will help
    some 3,400 families to improve their housing conditions.

    Yet another 19 families of refugees will get cottages in three villages
    of Ararat province in 2-3 days, built by the NRC. But still 11,000
    refugee families face this problem. Until now the UNHCR have built
    3,500 apartments and cottages for refugees with the help of the NRC.
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