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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
Through Its New Project FAR Encourages Business Growth in Impoverished Tavush Province
When Tatevik Gevorgyan, 40, first learned about FAR’s Start Your Own Business Project , she immediately began discussing with her family...
May 27, 20192 min read
Tech Development Project Positively Impacts Development and Innovation in IT
GTech’s project “Boosting Technological Developments in Shirak Province,” which launched two years ago, can already boast some success...
Mar 22, 20192 min read
FAR Programs Assist Ambitious Syrian-Armenian Architectural Student
Meet Noura Toubrakji, one of our Nishanian Foundation Scholarship Students. An architecture and design student at the National...
Mar 19, 20191 min read
Diocesan Primate Very Reverend Fr. Daniel Findikyan Experiences FAR Projects During a Site Visit
The Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, Very Reverend Fr. Daniel Findikyan, this week spent a day of his...
Mar 14, 20192 min read
Youth Group of Connecticut Parish Raises Funds for FAR’s Vocational Training Programs
Earlier this month, the youth group of New Britain’s Holy Resurrection Church held the fundraiser for their 2nd Annual Slice of Summer...
Mar 11, 20191 min read
Win a Traditional Handmade Armenian Rug and Support FAR Through the WGCC Raffle
The Women’s Guild Central Council (WGCC) will be holding a fundraiser during its Annual Assembly luncheon in Watertown, MA, on May 4th....
Mar 7, 20191 min read
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