Blog – FAR

[CME]: Continuing Medical Education’s Mentors Want to Enable More Rural Doctors to Participate in CME image

Mentors are doctors in Yerevan who volunteer to continually work with CME participants during their month-long stays at their various medical institutions. Their 14th annual meeting, held earlier this month, focused discussion on program developments and ongoing activities.

[BCPP]: Berd Woman Builds Her Business with Help from FAR image

With an average of about 90 customer visits per month, Nare now has twice as many clients than she did a year ago. She markets herself primarily through Facebook and word of mouth, and has yet to name her business.

[FAR Schools]: Renovations at the Parakar School to be Finished by September image

Armenia’s Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan visited Parakar in early June.

[FAR Schools]: Music School’s Year-End Concert Celebrates Student Success image

One hundred students attend the Argavand School and their annual concert usually brings together the best of them—the choirs consisting of younger singers and solo performers, as well as students of piano, violin, guitar and accordion who play works by Komitas, Aram Khachaturian, Aleksandr Spendiaryan, Arno Babajanyan, Robert Petrosyan, Gabriel Faure, Dmitri Kabalevsky and Vladimir Shainsky, among others.

[FAR Schools]: Musicians Ian Gillan and Tommy Iommi, Supporters of Octet Music School’s Renovation, Return for a Visit image

The school was all but destroyed during the 1988 earthquake and, until recently, students had to continue to carry out their lessons in temporary containers. After seeing these substandard conditions, Dee and his organization, Do Something, decided to join forces with the musicians to raise money and build a new school.

[Child Protection]: FAR’s Program Beneficiaries Celebrate International Children’s Day image

June 1st marked International Children’s Day in Armenia. As per FAR’s tradition, kids at the FAR Children's Center participated in an exhibition devoted to the holiday, demonstrating their hand-made dolls and puppets, and offering their homemade cupcakes and other baked goods to visitors.

[FAR Soup Kitchens]: Nor Nork Soup Kitchen Helps One Woman to Live Debt Free image

A pension and monthly poverty allowance are this 69-year-old’s main source of income, but it’s not enough for her to live on and that makes it especially tough for Lyusya to be able to afford nutritious food.

[CASP]: FAR Distributes Spring CASP Stipends to More than 500 Children in Need image

Nearly 539 children who, like Emma, are either being raised by single mothers or who are orphans, receive CASP stipends until they turn 18.

[ANSEF]: ANSEF Grants Enable 88 Scientists to Pursue Innovative Work During 2019 image

The program, which aims to empower researchers to stay in their home country, was launched 19 years ago. Since then, more than USD 2.4 million has been invested in 488 grants, which have been given to 1,735 scientists.

[Ayo]: Read More About Ayo!’s Latest Project in “The Armenian Weekly” image

We recently shared the news about the launch of Ayo!’s latest project, Kond that was, Kond to be. The Armenian Weekly just published an article on the project, which focuses on local artist Sergey Navasardyan’s effort to revive the culturally rich neighborhood of Kond through his #YerevanTropics initiative.