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Ayo!‘s Latest Campaign to Help Underserved Children Access Eye Care
Ayo! has launched another great project. Forged in partnership with the Armenian EyeCare Project (AECP), Vis[Ability] will help bring...
Aug 13, 20191 min read


Sahan Arzruni Spreads Message About the Importance of Musical Education
Beloved FAR friend, master pianist, philanthropist and humanitarian Sahan Arzruni spent most of June conducting a tour with a mission as...
Aug 8, 20192 min read


FAR’s Support Enables One Woman to Support Her Family Through Her Pastry Business
Lilit Melkumyan, 30, juggles multiples responsibilities at one time. A mother to Sirusho, 8, and Alen, 6, Lilit is a school cafeteria...
Aug 6, 20192 min read


FAR Partner AAHPO Conducts Medical Mission to Armenia’s Berd
The Armenian American Health Professionals Organization ’s (AAHPO) recent medical mission to the Berd Region has led to a new...
Aug 1, 20192 min read


FAR Supports the Strengthening of Science Education in Berd Schools
When Ruzanna Tumanyan, 62, was a student she thought constantly about the sky. She wanted to be an aviator, specifically a flight tester,...
Jul 29, 20192 min read


VOAH Helps One Woman Find a Place to Nurture Her Love of Singing
Seventy-year-old Anahit Lalayan has been living at Vanadzor Old Age Home (VOAH) for the last three years. Originally from Yerevan,...
Jul 23, 20192 min read


FAR Program Helps One Man to Launch His Own Agribusiness
A radio technician by trade, Manvel Brutyan also builds furniture and produces his own wine. Last year, the 48-year-old delved further...
Jul 18, 20192 min read


FAR Children’s Center Aims to Improve the Resilience of Refugee Children
A recent hiking trip organized by the FAR Children’s Center , enabled 16 disadvantaged youth (aged 12-16), among them asylum-seekers,...
Jul 16, 20192 min read


CASP Helps a Young Man Start His Own Small Business
Artyom Paytyan decided to turn his passion for cars into a career. The seventeen-year-old is on the path to becoming a certified mechanic...
Jul 12, 20192 min read


One Year Later, Aragatsotn Project Demonstrates Success
The lives of Tsaghkahovit Village Kindergarten students, 4-year-old Gor Terjyan, and 6-year-old Areg Harutyunyan, have drastically...
Jul 10, 20192 min read


FAR Program Helps One Single Mother to Launch Her Own Business
After eight years of selling anything from flowers to clothing to food in various stores, 33-year-old Shushan Voskanyan decided to become...
Jul 8, 20192 min read


CASP Stipends Assist Javakhk Siblings and their Struggling Family
Ani and Robert Mgdesyan live in the small town of Ninotsminda in Georgia’s Javakhk Region with their mother and grandparents. Robert,...
Jul 4, 20191 min read


GTech Web Programming Courses Empowers Young Veterans to Pursue a Better Future
After two years in the military, 20-year-old Harutyun Pakhanyan found new inspiration in the field of information technology and...
Jul 2, 20192 min read


Continuing Medical Education’s Mentors Want to Enable More Rural Doctors to Participate in CM
Following the annual meeting of mentors for our Continuing Medical Education Program (CME), FAR is considering the possibility of...
Jun 27, 20191 min read


Berd Woman Builds Her Business with Help from FAR
Nare Melkumyan has always enjoyed manicures. As a child, she played manicurist using the petals of flowers as her special “polish.” Now,...
Jun 25, 20192 min read


Renovations at the Parakar School to be Finished by September
Intense renovations are in full swing at the Parakar School for Children with Disabilities , with September the deadline for all work to...
Jun 21, 20191 min read


Music School’s Year-End Concert Celebrates Student Success
Twelve-year-old Milena Hovhannisyan is a fourth-grade piano student at the Argavand Music School After Arsen Sayan, which is named after...
Jun 19, 20191 min read


Musicians Ian Gillan and Tommy Iommi, Supporters of Octet Music School’s Renovation
Three decades after holding their legendary concert to support relief efforts in Armenia, Rock Aid Armenia’s initiator Jon Dee and two...
Jun 17, 20192 min read


FAR’s Program Beneficiaries Celebrate International Children’s Day
June 1st marked International Children’s Day in Armenia. As per FAR’s tradition, kids at the FAR Children’s Center participated in an...
Jun 13, 20191 min read


Nor Nork Soup Kitchen Helps One Woman to Live Debt Free
Lyusya Shmavonyan used to buy her food regularly on credit at a local store near her home. She would then pay off her purchases once she...
Jun 11, 20192 min read


FAR Distributes Spring CASP Stipends to More than 500 Children in Need
“If I ever meet my sponsor, I will perform a concert for him,” said nine-year-old Emma Petrosyan as she showed off the flute and piano...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


ANSEF Grants Enable 88 Scientists to Pursue Innovative Work During 2019
April 17th marked the start of another year of FAR’s Armenian National Science and Education Fund (ANSEF). The awards ceremony, which...
Jun 4, 20191 min read


Highlighted Beneficiary: Zareh Mangilikian
It was the need for peace and a better quality of life that caused Zareh Mangilikian and his family to flee their home in Syria. It was...
Jun 1, 20193 min read


Read More About Ayo!'s Latest Project in The Armenian Weekly
We recently shared the news about the launch of Ayo!’s latest project, Kond that was, Kond to be . The Armenian Weekly just published...
May 28, 20191 min read
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