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The first meeting with the Community Centers Officers in the frames of the project “Community based rural development and peacebuilding through peace education” took place. The above mentioned project is the logical continuation of the previous one. Once more summarizing […]
On 4-5 March, 2014 the Council of Europe organised a seminar “Preparing educators for their action in a multicultural environment” in Strasbourg. Participants included representatives of Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society, in particular those who work with children and the youth […]
While the Old Arpeni will wake up from the deep winter-sleep and start preparing for the upcoming festival in summer, the project “My community is my home” continues to prosper in New Arpeni. Due to Jirayr Edilyan’s fundraising initiative, the […]
Those of us in the NGO sector have great ideas (just ask us). We develop plans for projects, working all day and worrying at night, about implementation and impact. But how do we know if our project is successful? Well, […]
A project, which succeeded to mobilize the village community and people, who have never even been there… Arpeni* is one of the remote villages of Shirak province, facing all the main issues the rest of Armenian villages undergo, and one […]
Arpeni is a small village in the northwestern part of Armenia. Like many other villages in this area, it was severally damaged by the earthquake of 1988. Families abandoned their homes. A new village was built. But the ruins of […]
On October 21-25 Armine Shiroyan and Susanna Ghazaryan participated in a 5-day training “Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation” organized by INTRAC (the International NGO Training and Research Center). The training was held in Oxford, the UK. The need for participation in […]
On behalf of ‘Women for Development” NGO and Arpeni village population, we express our gratitude to all the contributors for their support to this wonderful project. Here they are.
Today Lanjik secondary school hosted Bobbie Seltzer, a Peace Corps volunteer, who conducted a seminar on the topic “What is voluntary work?” for more than 30 students of 10-12 grades. Bobbie has been in Armenia for more than 3 months […]
There was a joyful celebration in Apreni this afternoon. The community members have come together to celebrate the opening of “Events’ Hall” and children’s playground in the village. “Our Community is our Home” and “Children are our Future” are […]