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Address:
1 R.Melikyan, Malatia-Sebastia,
375065 Yerevan,
Tel: (374 1) 777 118, 777 119, 777
599, 54 43 47
Fax: (374 1) 54 43 48
E-mail: wvarm@arminco.com
Web-site: www.wvarmenia.am
Robert T.Dira, National Director
Tigran Yepoyan, Operations Manager
Anna Ananyan, CRS & Comms
Manager
World Vision International is the
largest privately funded Christian Relief and Development Organization working
against poverty and injustice in over 104 countries around the world, sponsoring
1,8 million children annually. For nearly 50 years, World Vision’s development
programs have been focused primarily on children because they are the future
owners of this world. World Vision came to Armenia thirteen years ago providing
emergency relief to the victims of the December 1988 earthquake. At present
World Vision’s programs cover not only Yerevan, the capital area but also
Syunik region in the south, Gegharkunik region in the northeast and Gyumri in
the north.
First Child Sponsorship and ADP
will start with 1500 children in earthquake ravaged Gyumri, the second largest
city in the north of Armenia where the 1988 earthquake claimed over 25000
people’s lives. WV Armenia’s projects will focus on helping disadvantaged
families through education, health, social welfare, Christian outreach,
infrastructure development and income generation opportunities for parents.
WV Armenia delivers GIK to various
regions of Armenia covering about 40 000 km of roads per year. Children in
remote mountainous villages and towns get school supplies, warm clothing and
boots to go to school and survive through cold Armenian winters. Medical
supplies donated in-kind help hospitals to provide services to their clients;
construction materials help communities to renovate classrooms and health
facilities.
Gifts donated by Christians from
all over the world bring out smiles of many children in Armenia.
CIED project is a practical,
effective way of creating education opportunities for children with special
needs. It helps preschool children with special needs to overcome disability
problems restoring self-confidence and faith in their own strength to become
viable members of society while allowing others in the community to see their
abilities rather than their disabilities.
CIED
Project allows children with disabilities benefit from professional assistance
that will enhance their general development, functional ability to communicate,
establish social relations, perform tasks at home, school and community.
Donors in the United States fund the project Christ
for Children of Armenia. The project helps local churches, indigenous
Christian groups to establish and sustain Sunday schools and arrange summer
Christian camps.
WVA partners with Armenian
Apostolic Church, Catholic and Evangelical Churches to support spiritual growth
and social conscience.
In April 2001, WVA started Civic
Initiatives Development project in Syunik Marz (province) in the south of
Armenia. The goal of the project is to develop civic initiatives and support
organizations in various communities in Syunik, encourage community’s
participation in social and civic issues that will help them in economic and
social development.
WV Armenia MED program supports
locally owned and operated businesses by providing loan opportunities and
business trainings for Armenian entrepreneurs. WV Armenia provides these
opportunities for poor men and women thanks to its partners who are willing to
invest in these hardworking and talented people making it possible for them to
insure a better future and safe present for their children.
Since 1996 WV Armenia’s MED
program grew both in the number of active borrowers and the total value of the
funds available to loan. In 1998 it became the first Micro Financial Institution
in Armenia known as Small Enterprise Fund (SEF).
Other links: www.worldvision.org,
www.wveuromideast.org, www.wvi.org.