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    ARMENIA TREE PROJECT
    65 Main Street
    Watertown, MA 02472 USA
    Tel: (617) 926-TREE
    Email: [email protected]
    Web: www.armeniatree.org

    PRESSS RELEASE
    June 10, 2011

    ATP Celebrates World Environment Day & International Children's Day at Mirak
    Family Reforestation Nursery

    YEREVAN--Armenia Tree Project (ATP) celebrated World Environment Day and
    International Children's Day on June 1 at the John and Artemis Mirak Nursery
    in Margahovit Village. The event was attended by the staff from ATP's
    Yerevan Office and the Mirak Reforestation Nursery, along with their
    families.

    "The children made friends instantly and started playing together,"
    explained ATP Community Development Specialist Vardan Melikyan. "The nursery
    workers invited musicians from the village to take part in our gathering and
    the kids had fun dancing to traditional live music in the fresh mountain
    air. The boys were impressed with ATP's agricultural equipment such as
    tractors and an all-terrain motorcycle, while the girls enjoyed gathering
    field flowers."

    ATP's Environmental Education staff presented notebooks and the children
    drew beautiful pictures of nature and trees which now decorate the inside of
    the small building at the nursery. After an outdoor lunch, ATP specialists
    showed the children how to plant trees and they planted five symbolic
    evergreens at the nursery. "Everyone, especially the children, had a great
    time and ATP hopes to organize similar events with our stakeholders in the
    future," concluded Melikyan.

    International Children's Day is celebrated on June 1, when activities are
    organized for children including outings with families. The day is dedicated
    to children worldwide and is often marked with speeches on children's rights
    and well-being.

    World Environment Day is a widely celebrated global day for environmental
    action held on June 5. The UN Environment Programme describes it as a day
    for people from all walks of life to come together to ensure a cleaner,
    greener, and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations, and
    this year's theme was "Forests: Nature at Your Service."

    ATP's mission is to assist the Armenian people in using trees to improve
    their standard of living and protect the environment, guided by the need to
    promote self-sufficiency, aid those with the fewest resources first, and
    conserve the indigenous ecosystem. ATP's three major programs are tree
    planting, environmental education, and sustainable development initiatives.
    For more information about ATP, please visit the web site
    www.armeniatree.org.

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