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The Parakar School’s Vocational Training Wing Officially Opens to Students
In the midst of FAR’s recent celebrations commemorating 30 years of work in Armenia, the Parakar School also officially opened its...
Oct 18, 20193 min read
FAR Receives Armenia’s Highest Honor for its 30 Years of Service to Armenia
This year, Fund for Armenian Relief celebrates 30 years of transformative humanitarian and development work. A gala held last week at...
Oct 1, 20192 min read
FAR Provides Much-Needed Dental Care to the Students of Parakar
This is the second year FAR has partnered with the Rotary Club of Yerevan and the Armenian American Dental Association’s mobile clinic to...
Aug 29, 20192 min read
Artsakh Nurses CME Program: Empowering Important Healthcare Providers of the Region
Registered nurses Gohar Dadayan and Karine Khachatryan recently held a training for 30 of their colleagues from the Martuni Region of...
Aug 27, 20192 min read
New Mardigian Center Initiative Encourages Interaction Between Youth and the Elderly
Hasmik, 72, Aregnas, 85, Lesing, 80, Roza, 76, and 92-year-old war veteran Mekhak are people who battle loneliness on a daily basis and...
Aug 22, 20191 min read
Former FAR Beneficiary Volunteers to Help Beautify Parakar School
FAR project managers often encourage our beneficiaries to give back when they can as it is a great way for them to honor the support they...
Aug 20, 20191 min read
Art Show Helps Youth to Showcase Their Talent
Fifteen-year-old Meline Grigoryan loves to paint. Recently, some of her works depicting village life and the monuments of her home town...
Aug 15, 20191 min read
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
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