With his background in agriculture and the automotive industry, VAN’s Syrian-Armenian owner Nerses Kivo had to leave everything in Aleppo – his job, house, and friends – to flee civil war.
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15-year-old twins Nare and Meline are members of a Chinari hobby group operated by FAR’s “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Program” (BCPP)* in the Tavush region. The twins, along with other members of the Chinari and Aygepar hobby groups, recently displayed their handmade works at exhibitions held in their village. The BCPP hobby groups provide much-needed extracurricular activities in the border region and introduce children to a variety of sports and art forms otherwise unavailable to them.
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For about 10 years now, Andranik Khachatryan, 34, has been serving at the border of Tavush Region, Armenia. A true patriot in his soul, Andranik is holding the border tightly and protecting the homeland of millions of Armenians without fear of putting his life in jeopardy.
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Sevag Aroyan and Maria Maronian’s inspiring success is due to a lot of hard work. It was only a year ago when on March 7, 2016, they held their very first class at ETC-English and Exam Training Center that they had just opened in the heart of Yerevan. They started their business with a loan and by using the good reputation they had acquired during their short stay in Armenia.
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It all started a year ago when FAR provided funds to a local nursery that specialized in grape cultivation and operated under the cooperative of Varagavan Village in the Berd Region. The support, which was made possible thanks to FAR’s Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Program (BCPP), covered several months of operational costs for the nursery, and helped it to produce locally grown, disease-free grape seedlings which turned out to be half the price of the frequently-used but imported European or Georgian seedlings.
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A new sub project within our Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Program (BCPP), which aims to provide support to smaller business owners, has already helped two local businesses to expand. After opening a call for applications nearly one year ago, FAR program managers had the difficult task of choosing the ideas of two successful candidates out of the 10 applicants who presented their plans on how to enlarge their current businesses. Selection was followed by a training on how to prepare solid business plans, and each candidate was given an interest-free loan and a grant to carry it out.
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One year of hard work has brought significant results to Zangakatun Village where FAR, along with the Orange Foundation are preparing to officially close the One Village Project: Empowering Zangakatun to Development. The project, which opened August and aimed to develop the village's economic sustainability and infrastructure, improve its healthcare and education, and support its cultural heritage, has impacted more than 1,200 residents of this small village in Ararat Province.
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Hundreds of young people had a chance to better their future career paths over the course of the past year thanks to the efforts of some leading companies in Armenia's IT sphere, FAR, and some other charitable organizations. Three hundred forty-five young people from Gyumri and 285 from Vanadzor took part in mobile, web and computer engineering courses completely free of charge and gained practical skills in programming through FAR’s Trainings for Gyumri and Vanadzor Technology Centers Program.
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Leading members of the Armenian diaspora and those interested in learning the latest about the growing IT sector in Armenia gathered June 10 that Synopsys in Mountain View, California, for theArmenia: IT Forum convention.
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A group of young Armenian Americans from the Armenian Service Program (ASP) recently spent several weeks herefamiliarizing themselves with the country while also offering support through community service.
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