The region of Armavir The region of Ararat

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Prepared by Naira Karmirshalyan
Public Relations Coordinator
Project Harmony-Armenia
April 28, 2006
Global Yo ut h Servi ce Day in Ar m enia
Pro ject Ha rmo ny
Arm enia Sc hool Co n n ectivity Prog ram
Every individual counts, every individual has a role to play, and every individual makes a
difference.
The future of this planet lies in the tremendous energy, enthusiasm, and commitment of
young people around the world.
Global Youth Service Day proves it.
For the second year in a row Project Harmony-Armenia implements the role of a GYSD
National Leading Agency and initiates several projects, once more proving the fact that
youth plays the most important role in serving the community and is an inseparable part
of it. Giving a special importance to community service and youth involvement, every
year Project Harmony becomes a part of the Global World and connects youth around a
united idea.
Every region of Armenia becomes one of the most active participants of GYSD
contributing all their efforts and enthusiasm in creating a healthy environment for future
generations.
The region of Arm avir
Realizing the role of youth in building the future, the region of Armavir joined the world
celebrating the Global Youth Service Day.
During GYSD implementation more than 120 young volunteers and 20 teachers from 8
ASCP network schools of Armavir region implemented a number of community events.
As planned initially on April 21st and 22nd Armenia School Connectivity Program (ASCP)
network Internet Computer Centers (ICCs) announced “Open Doors” for community
representatives. More than 80 community members visited the ICCs and used the services
of the ICC for free. The “Open Doors” were followed by cleaning events.
15 students, 3 teachers and 9 volunteers from community cleaned surroundings of their
schools as well as gardens nearby Armavir Municipality and Armavir Regional Council.
The region of Armavir brought together 220 participants and volunteers.
The region of Ararat
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Every year the region of Ararat is
actively
involved
in
GYSD
celebrations, however, this year
GYSD included a wider scope.
The largest Ararat GYSD event was
called “Recognizing our historical
values and realizing who is the
volunteer”, which took place on
April 21st in Pokr Vedi school.
The event embodied 3 parts. It began
with a talk show on “Volunteerism”,
which was presented through a
Marching group in front of Khor Virap monastery
PowerPoint presentation. Teachers,
pupils of 7 schools in Ararat region (Surenavan, Ararat #2, Vedi #3, Taperakan, Noyakert,
Kakhtsrashen, Pokr Vedi), the director of Project Harmony-Armenia David Simpson,
representatives of Project Harmony and “Harmony” Foundation, representatives of
different NGOs, a Peace Corps volunteer Emily Brighton, and Junior Achievements
Ararat branch representative Arthur Nazaryan expressed their opinions and attitudes
towards “Volunteerism” proving it with their participation at walk tour to Khor Virap,
which was being implemented within the framework of “Recognizing our historical
values” project.
After the talk show Pokr Vedi schoolchildren presented the guests a PowerPoint
presentation telling about old Artashat and Khor Virap Monastery. The talk show was
followed by planting the “Park of Friendship”. All the 7 school representatives and the
guests were participating at that traditional event of Pokr Vedi school. Trees with names
of schools, NGOs and International
organizations have been planted, the
most popular among which was the
“Project Harmony” tree, which was the
3rd one in Pokr Vedi school yard.
The first Project Harmony tree was
planted in 2005 during GYSD
celebration; the second one has been
planted this year within the framework
of “Cooperation Tree Planting” event,
when school partner organizations
planted individual trees.
A walk towards Khor Virap Monastery
Walk tour to Khor Virap followed the
tree planting. Walk tour was lead by the school military service teacher Mr. Naghdalyan.
Each school was walking with their own posters, and in spite of rainy weather all the
pupils were happy to participate at walk tour. When reaching Khor Virap, Pokr Vedi
schoolchildren guided the guests both in English and in Armenian. Getting introduced
with Khor Virap Monastery, the name of which was connected with the adoption of
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Christianity in Armenia, the participants finished their mission with a joint photograph
near the church. 80 students, 20 teachers and NGO members participated in this action.
Another event worth mentioning within the framework of Ararat GYSD events was
Artashat school number 4 tree planting event implemented within the framework of
Disney Minnie Grant.
Disney provided the grantees with 500 USD and 100 trees have been planted in the yard
of Artashat School #4. 30 schoolchildren, 5 teachers, 10 local government and NGO
representatives were present at the event, which took place on April 22.
As a result, GYSD in Ararat reached its aim to create within the youth the ideas of being
useful, the ideas of volunteerism and solidarity. The GYSD celebration in Ararat region
gathered 145 participants.
Region of Syunik
It’s already 3 years that Syunik region participates
in GYSD celebrations.
On April 22-23 the Internet Computer Centers
(ICC) of Syunik region in cooperation with schools
and local government implemented “Open Doors”
days and cleaning events within the framework of
GYSD.
Totally 2600 pupils, 200 teachers and 250
community members have participated in the
events. The local “Sosi” TV made a material on the
events and broadcasted them on TV.
Here are some small stories telling about the
Cleaning of school surroundings and land
cultivation
organized
events.
The cleaning events in Kapan special school #1,
Goris School # 5, Sisian school #2 and Kornidzor
secondary school embraced a wider scope. 1300
pupils and 80 teachers carried out cleaning works
at school and nearby territories.
During the works, community members were
joining them encouraging the pupils with their
activities. As a result districts of Kapan, Goris and
Sisian, where more than 4500-5000 people were
living have been cleaned from rubbish.
Cleaning of the monuments
The ICCs of Kapan #1, Goris # 3 and Uyts secondary schools organized “Open Doors”
events, each of which lasted 2 hours. With the
help of ICC staff nearly 35 community members
used Internet resources, as well as got familiar
with some useful links.
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Artsvanik village secondary school implemented the school nearby territory land
cultivation and cleaning of village monuments. 2 teachers were leading the 15 pupils to
cleaning events.
Cleaning activities and open doors have been implemented in other schools of the region
too the essence of which was to teach community members to have a clean environment,
as well as to promote their visit to ICCs and use modern technologies.
The overall number of participants included 2850 people.
Region of Tavus h
Celebrating GYSD
On the occasion of the 7th anniversary of
the GYSD celebration in some of the
ICCs of Tavush region were organized
number of events: cleaning of the ICCs,
“Open Doors” hours, tree planting etc.
From seven to ten grades 200 students of
Eghegnadzor School #3 participated in
the ICC cleaning. The ICCs, the
computers and the other equipments
were cleaned, as well as the room was
Tree Planting
decorated with some plants and flowers.
The “Open Doors” goes after the ICC
cleaning,
inviting
many
community
members to use ICC free services. The
beneficiaries of the initiatives became NGO
representatives,
soldiers,
students,
housewives, villagers and other community
representatives.
Only
Noyemberyan
School#1 hosted about 20 members:
“Erevak:” NGO representative K. Nazaryan,
Open Doors day for the community members
“Ajakcutyun” NGO manager H. Azibekyan,
” Bridge of Hope” NGO representative H.Margaryan, “Lusatsir” NGO manager A.
Zurabyan, “Nor Tsiatsan” publisher S.Martirosyan and others. The total amount of the
beneficiaries made 85 people.
On April 22, 70 trees were planted in Dilijan school #2, which were provided by the vice
mayor of the town Armen Makaryan. The participants of the tree planting, the number of
which makes 67 people, were the ten grade students and teachers of the above-mentioned
schools.
The ICC monitor of Dilijan School#2 Lamara Mantashyan, being a head of Dilijan
Information Center, published a small article about all this in “Dilijan” weekly newspaper.
The total number of GYSD participants is 352 people.
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Region of Vayots Dzor
Following the traditions the schools of Vayots Dzor region actively participated in GYSD
celebrations.
In order to organize attractive events
Eghegnadzor School #3 cooperated with
Canadian-Armenian businessman Mr.
Terdjanyan,
who
now
lives
in
Eghegnadzor. Mr. Terdjanyan provided
the school with 1000 pine plants, 200 of
which were planted around the school and
800 were planted in a small gorge near
Eghegnadzor town. The volunteers were
3-10 grade students, teachers, 2 Peace
Corps volunteers. The total number of
participants was 350 volunteers.
The
Tree planting
guests of the event were the journalists
from “Aspekt” newspaper, which elucidated the event in the newspaper.
The next tree planting was organized on April 21 in Vayk School #1. The City Council
provided the school with 50 tree plants. 100 students, teachers, school management and 5
Peace Corps volunteers forestated school adjacent territory.
On April 21 Jermuk School #2 joined GYSD celebration by organizing a tree planting. The
City Council of Jermuk provided the school with 200 tree plants, which served in
foresting the school nearby territory. 600 volunteers, including students, teachers, and
community members participated in the tree planting.
Tree planting was also organized in Vernashen School #1. 300 5-10 grade school students
planted the 200 trees provided by the City Council.
Areni secondary school organized an “Open Doors” day for ten veterans of the village.
The war veterans explored the Internet, used
ICC services, after which watched the movie
devoted to the World War II. The event was
attended also by the schoolchildren, who by
expressing their token of respect presented
the veterans with small presents and flowers.
It already became a tradition in Malishka
secondary school to celebrate the GYSD by
organizing the clean up of monument to the
missing soldier. On April 22, 2006 the school
organized the sanitary cleaning of the
monument. The volunteers of the event
Collecting volunteers for the gorge forestation
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were the 150 5-10 grade children and 5 teachers. The local TV broadcasted the event over
the day.
The overall number of participants in this region reached 1060 people.
Region of Kotayk
Keeping the traditions, the region of Kotayk got engaged in Global Youth Service Day by
implementing different events. About 20 ICCs opened their doors for communities,
offering free community services. Many of the schools took part in cleaning works. As
always some village communities like Arzni, Dzorakhpur, Zovuni organized tree planting.
But Abovyan School #10 was the most active in organizing tree planting and cleaning.
Almost all the ICC of the region were cleaned and 100 tree plants were planted.
The GYSD overall participation included 150 volunteers.
Region of Lori
The following events have been
implemented in Lori region within
the Global Youth Service Day.
23 ASCP schools of Lori region
implemented cleaning activities in
their schoolyards and nearby
territories.
Approximately
1000
students, more than 20 ICC site staff
and many teachers participated in
these events. The cleaning activities
took place on April 22 almost in all
Tree planting
schools.
Within GYSD framework 9 schools of the region implemented tree planting in their
schoolyards and their nearby territories. The following schools participated in the tree
planting event: Vanadzor secondary schools #1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 21, Stepanavan schools #1, #3
and Akhtala secondary schools. About 150 students took part in this activity. As a result
165 trees have been planted in the region. Besides the trees, flowers have also been
planted in the schoolyards of some of the mentioned schools.
On April 21, 2006 20 students of
Vanadzor secondary school #5, an ICC
site staff, a team coordinator and the
school Principal Lyova Baroyan visited
Vanadzor Elderly House. As a gift to the
elderly people the students presented
some entertainments: poetry, dancing,
national songs, jokes, as well as a special
cake, wine, pastry and flowers. Almost
the overall event was transmitted by
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or some
pr og
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to the
Elderly
House
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“Lori” TV Company both in the Daily News and “Week” TV programs, which present the
regional important items of news of the week.
Totally 1230 people participated in GYSD events in Lori region.
Region of Aragatsotn
The GYSD celebration in Ashtarak Fine
Art School began a day earlier. The
children started cleaning the ICCs on
20th of April. The next day the ICC
announced “Open Doors” for parents.
The aim of this initiative was to give a
chance to the parents to get acquainted
with the educational institutions where
their children can continue their
education in different fields of art. The
ICC monitors Roma Shmavonyan and
Astghik Grigoryan found out the
necessary information through the
Tree planting
Internet and presented them to the
parents. During the whole day 6 parents and 10 community members used the free
services of the Internet Computer Center.
Ashtarak College named after V. Petrosyan participated in GYSD through a tree planting.
Five apricot trees were planted in the schoolyard. The leader of this initiative was Anahit
Aghumyan, Deputy Director of the school. The participants were ten grade students and
their teachers.
On April 21 the principal of Karin School announced “Open Doors” day for the
community members, which are represented by refugees. 22 community members came
to use free ICC services. With the help of 16 schoolchildren, the refugees used the
Internet, downloaded files, containing useful information about their rights and freedoms.
“Open Doors” were continued also in R ia T aza secondary school. Participated 12
community members. The ICC provided different services, including printing, calendar
design, paper writing, etc.
Aragatsotn region gathered 500 volunteers.
Region of Shirak
The region of Shirak celebrated GYSD by
organizing the following events and involving 34
regional schools.
On April 22 all of the 34 schools implemented
“Open Doors” day and ICC and adjacent territory
cleaning. The event included 272 teachers, 510
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students, and 238 community members and parents.
On April 22 the children from “Huys” (Hope) orphans house visited Gyumri School #4. At
the school the schoolchildren organized a PowerPoint presentation and a concert for 20
orphan children. The event was supported by the school ICC monitor and by two
schoolchildren, who entertained the guests with songs and poetry. The visitors of the
event were also the director of the orphanage Mr. Markosyan, schoolteachers, community
members, as well as the local “Gala” TV Company, which provided the full coverage of
the event by the local television. The schoolchildren prepared an excellent reception for
the orphan children, granting them with small presents, such as
notebooks and pens. Project Harmony in its turn presented the
Elderly people planting a tree
children with T-shirts, carrying the logo of the organization. 15
students and 7 teachers participated.
On the same day a tree planting project was implemented in Gyumri School #11. In the
framework of the Disney Minnie Grant, recently received by the school and celebrating
the Global Youth Service Day, the school initiated a tree planting, involving the youth
into serving the community and outreaching the sense of volunteerism.
The trees were planted by 80 students, 30
teachers, 20 elderly people, and other
guests, including representatives from the
Regional Council, director of Seismology
center Sergey Nazaretyan, Leader of
“Araks” psychological center NGO Alla
Khachatryan.
All in all 100 plants were planted around
the school.
After the tree planting the ICC monitor
presented the guests with the PowerPoint
presentation about ICC services, after
Community members participate at the tree planting
which was a small concert for the
participants. The guests of the event were also journalists from “Gala” and “Shant” TV
companies, who provided the full coverage of the occasion.
The number of participants reached 2000.
Region of Gegharkunik
In spite of the rainy weather the
planned activities of Global Youth
Service Day celebration took place in
Gegharkunik region. On April 21st and
22nd all the students of Zolakar # 2,
Zovaber, Sevan # 7, Martuni # 1 and #
2, Gavar # 2, Gavar # 5, Vardenis # 3
participated in cleaning works and
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tree planting. Nearly 2000 students participated in cleaning works and 500 students from
7th to 9th grades participated in tree planting.
On April 22, ICC monitor and 3 teachers from Sevan
School # 4 organized an interesting event – together with
8 students they visited the old and poor people of their community by taking some food
with them. They met nearly 15 old people. The old people were very excited by the
treatment of young generation.
Cleaning school surroundings
26 students from Gavar Schools # 2 and # 8 helped 10 community members to clean the
surroundings of Grigor Lusavorich and Mariam Astvatsatsin churches on April 22nd.
On April 22nd at Gavar Schools # 9 and # 5 “Open Door” activities were organized: 5
volunteer school students helped the community members - soldiers, university students,
housewives (24) to do research on the Internet on different topics, to open e-mails, etc.
On April 21st, the students of Gavar School
# 9 helped “Gavar Young Writers’ Club
after Garegin Nzhdeh” to type and print
their works. 10 students from 9th grade
helped 8 young writers to use the ICC
equipment for their needs.
Total number of participants in this region
counted 2610.
Cleaning nearby territory
Yerev an
To celebrate the Global Youth Service
Day 2006 Yerevan school #6 after H.
Karapents decided to organize a tree
and bush planting in the front yard of
the school. In order to get funds the
school decided to participate in the
Disney
Minnie
Grant
Program
implemented by Youth Service
America organization (YSA) and was a
success since the school's project
entitled "Green Environment –
Healthy Generation" was approved for
Tree planting
funding. The project was aimed at
raising the awareness of the target groups
on topics related to ecological issues and
environmental problems and their
influence on people's health.
However, the culmination of the project
took place on Global Youth Service Day,
Drawing on the playground
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April 22, 2006, when the students of the school together with community members and
several honorable guests participated in the tree and bush planting activity on the
territory of the school. The event was assisted by Deputy Community Leader Mr. Samvel
Margaryan, 10 school principals from Germany hosted by the school and Ms. Victoria
Baghdasaryan, Yerevan Regional Program Coordinator of "Project Harmony"
Organization. After the opening speech made by the principal of the school Ms. Ovsanna
Babayan, Victoria Baghdasaryan continued by briefly talking about the concept of Global
Youth Service Day and its mission. Then the tree and bush planting activity started,
which was later on followed by a competition of crayon paintings. The 1st and 2nd graders
of the school gathered at the school playground and using colorful chalks drew paintings
related to peace, nature and health.
According to our overall calculations, the project both directly and indirectly affected
about 650 students of the school, 50 teachers and approximately 900 community
members.
The coverage of the event was provided by "Yerevan" TV station, and the material were
shown in the frames of “Dproutyan Ghoghanjner” TV program.
The students of Yerevan School #145 applied for a grant to “The Choice is Yours” NGO.
The project “What Can I do for my school” won a small grant. All money was spent to
plant greenery in the schoolyard.
On the initiative of the active students
of Secondary School #43 a work group
was organized that planned activities
with the community in the frames of
the project «Global Warming and
Prevention».
The students prepared important
materials using Internet resources,
organized meetings with community.
They prepared booklets that contained
information about global warming, all
the dangers connected with global
warming and the ways of preventing
The team of students working on the “Global
the dangers.
Warming” project
The working group planned to
organize a tree planting, that was
considered to be the most important part of this project and aimed to involve the
community members and other school students in the tree planting and cleaning works.
The project was of a great success: about 400 people participated in the project, more than
50 trees were planted, the community and school area were cleaned.
The Global Youth Service Day was celebrated in several other Yerevan schools as well.
For example, tree plantings were organized on the territories of Yerevan Secondary
School #105, Yerevan Special School #15 for Children with Hearing Disabilities,
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Republican Special Educational Complex #1. The Internet Computer Center Site Staff of
several schools conducted presentations talking about GYSD, its importance and the
engagement of youth in that action organized in the different parts of our globe. Among
those schools were Yerevan Secondary School #105, Yerevan Special School #15 for
Children with Hearing Disabilities, Republican Special Educational Complex #1 and
Yerevan Special School #3. Overall, about 60 students took part in tree plantings, and
approximately 80 students assisted the presentations on GYSD organized by the Site Staff
of the ICCs.
The schools of the "Kentron" community
(Secondary schools #42, 24, 67, 114)
carried out cleaning activities on the
territories adjacent to their schools. About
160 students participated in this initiative.
Other schools of the capital also presented
active participation. 80 students and 20
teachers of Special School #5 did cleaning
work and planted 20 trees around the
school area. 500 people from Physical
Mathematical Special School and the
community took part in cleaning works
Cleaning nearby territory and planting trees
and tree planting. 200 people from
Yerevan School #129 together with community members took part in the volunteer work.
The students and teachers of Yerevan School #187, jointly with the community youth
(200 people in total) carried out the cleaning of the school, the ICC, planted 30 trees at the
school area, organized “Open Doors” for community students.
Yerevan Schools #142, #177, #77, #76, #100, #149 organized “Open Doors”, cleaning of
the ICC and the school surroundings and carried out a tree planting.
In total in Armenia 13.538 participants contributed to the volunteerism and development
of the community spirit, taking part at the events organized in the framework of the
Global Youth Service Day. More that 2100 trees were planted, thus serving as evidence of
youth enthusiasm and good will.
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The region of Armavir The region of Ararat

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