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2008-09-26Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Three Initiatives Completed and Officially Opened in Nagorno Karabakh
Opening ceremonies of the Hayastan Fund three completed initiatives – Togh School, Hadrut and Spitakashen water mains followed each other in Nagorno Karabakh on September 23 and 24.
Opening ceremonies of the Hayastan Fund three completed initiatives – Togh School, Hadrut and Spitakashen water mains followed each other in Nagorno Karabakh on September 23 and 24.
Students of the Togh school have started the new academic year in improved conditions. The two-storey building of the school, severely damaged in the 1988-1992 conflict, is now standing new and welcoming. Today some 100 students attend the school. Years later, today’s sixteen first-graders’ lasting memory of their school will be of an attractive place to study at and a good number of accomplishments.
«I believe this school will be a stimulus both for the students and the teachers to do even better”, said Ara Vardanyan in his speech.
Opening of Hadrut water main
The upgraded part of the school has enough space and facilities to also accommodate children from the neighboring communities of Jrakuis, Mariamadzor, Taghut, Tsakuri Hakaku, Mokhrenes, and Tumi. Not only the classrooms are now well-lit and clean, they are nicely furnished and will be heated during the winter months. Renovation of the left block of the Togh School (around US 139 million AMD) was funded within the Artsakh Rebirth Project and was carried out through the Hayastan Fund Western Region Affiliate with direct contribution from the AGBU Manoogian-Demirdjian school students and parents.
Among those attending the opening ceremony were the Nagorno Karabakh Prime Minister Araik Harutyunyan, Head of the Hadrut Administration Valerik Gevorkyan, Hayastan Fund Acting Executive Director Ara Vardanyan, Western Region Affiliate Executive Director Sargis Kotanjian, Minister of Civil Construction Anahit Vardanyan employees of the Fund, contractors and others.
“One thing that is special about this project is that the school has been renovated with the money collected by students and their parents of a similar school”, said Sargis Kotanjian addressing the participants of the ceremony.
“Now when we are implementing reforms to integrate into the international educational system, our school will undoubtedly meet the necessary standards. The laboratories of physics, chemistry, and informatics are adequately equipped and a great help to the teaching staff in the teaching process. We wouldn’t even dream about it a few years ago”, said the School Principal Vladimir Ghahryan.
Spitakashen people at the opening
Following the opening ceremony of the Togh School, the officials left for Hadrut to attend the opening ceremony of the Togh-Hadrut water main. “We realize how important water supply is in most parts of Nagorno-Karabakh”, said the Fund Acting Executive Director Ara Vardanyan.The Hadrut city water main project with the total cost of around 420 million AMD was implemented within the Telethon 2006, and was mainly sponsored by the Fund’s French local committee. Within the project a 22 km water pipe was installed from Arjaghbyur to Hadrut. Thanks to the project, water is run by gravity now and it will provide the city households will much needed water of a better quality.
Construction of the Kaghartsin-Spitakashen 8 km long water main will provide water to the Spitakashen community of around 470. The project worth about 80 million AMD was sponsored by the Hayastan Fund Argentine local committee. During the opening ceremony all the villagers expressed their gratitude to Armenians in Argentine for their generous support.
The Hadrut regional hospital and the gas supply will be completed by the end of the year. Construction of schools in Spitakasken and Chartar villages will start next month. The water supply project in Berdashen is already underway.
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