For Immediate Release ~ June 1, 2007
Contact: Sarkis Kotanjian ~ 818-243-6222
Armenia Fund recently completed 2 school projects in Martakert. The Madaghis Village School was recently completed, as well as the renovation of a kindergarten in Haterk. By September 2007, the construction of Kochoghot and Verin Horatagh Village Schools will be completed as well.
| The newly built, gleaming Madaghis School in Martakert |
Prior to the completion of the Madaghis School, students from the village used to attend classes in rusty mobile homes. Thanks to funding provided by Armenia Fund’s Toronto, Canada affiliate, the three floor modern school with adjacent restroom facilities and a boiler house was constructed. The $264,000 USD school will accommodate 120 students.
A similar three-floor building will open its doors for the schoolchildren of Kochoghot this coming September. Currently a run-down building with no heating systems serves the village as a school. With generous funding from the Fund’s French affiliate – Fonds Armenien de France - the first two floors and the basement of the school building were completed. The French affiliate will furnish the school upon its completion. Furnishing will be provided in partnership with the government of the City of St. Etienne (France).
The construction of the school building in Verin Horatagh is also being funded by the Canadian affiliate of the Fund. The new, three-floor building will soon replace the decaying village school built in the 1930s. Ever since there has not been any form of standardized maintenance.
Armenia Fund, Inc., is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation established in 1994 to facilitate large-scale humanitarian and infrastructure development assistance to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Since 1991, Armenia Fund has rendered more than $160 million in development aid to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Armenia Fund, Inc. is the U.S. Western Region affiliate of "Hayastan" All-Armenian Fund. Tax ID# 95-4485698
