On September 23 a meeting was organised with school principals, vice-principals, “Peace Education Centres” responsible teachers of 16 schools from Shirak region. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the issue of continuity of peace education project in the […]
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Delegation from Germany visited Goghovit
On September 5, 2010, WFD hosted a delegation from the Federal Republic of Germany, which consisted of Research Associates of Members of German Bundestag, a journalist, representatives of different political parties, the Protestant and Evangelistic church and EED (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdient […]
Peace Exhibition 2010
On May 15, 2010 Gyumri School #30 hosted Peace Exhibition with participation of more than 250 members of Peace Education Centers from 15 beneficiary schools of “Women for Development” NGO as well as school principals, teachers and parents. Through their […]
Regional partner consultation, Georgia
On March 1-3, 2010, the first joint regional partner consultation of the Church Development Service (EED) and the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany (DW EKD) took place in Tbilisi, Georgia. Gohar Markosyan, the President of WFD, […]
Working meeting in Aghveran: “Tolerance” manual
On March 9 -13 a discussion of the manual “Tolerance” envisaged for the pupils of 5 -9 grades and training for teachers took place in Aghveran. Gohar Markosyan, the President of WFD and Susanna Ghazaryan, the officer of Educational Department […]
Month of Peace
A Peace month was announced in all the beneficiary schools of the organisation in February – March 2010. The results of the Peace month were first summarised in Gyumri School #20 after J. Byron. Here pupils in 13 classes organised […]
Christmas and New Year in Bayandur
On December 29, 2009 a New Year’s and Christmas party took place in the Bayandur village community center. The initiator of the event was the major of Bayandur community Hovagim Sargsyan. At the beginning of the party on behalf of […]
8th Annual Global Linking and Learning program, the Netherlands
On December 1-10, 2009, Armine Shiroyan, the Coordinator of the “Creation of healthy and peaceful communities in Shirak region” project, participated in the 8th Annual Global Linking and Learning Program in the Netherlands, organized by Dignity International (www.dignityinternational.org) in partnership […]
“Gender and Conflict” in schools
December 1-4, 2009 WFD conducted lessons on the topic “Gender and Conflict” were conducted in “Peace Education Centers” of some schools of Gyumri. During the lessons more than 85 schoolchildren of 7-9 grades received information on the history of the […]
OMNIBUS 1325: working meeting on November 14-17, 2009
A 4-day working meeting of the International peace-building network OMNIBUS 1325 took place on November 14-17, 2009 in Istanbul (Turkey). Susanna Ghazaryan, the Officer of Education Department of WFD and a member of the International peace-building network OMNIBUS 1325 also […]