Hayastan All Armenian Fund approves 2017 fundraiser directions

Hayastan All Armenian Fund confrmed this year’s fundraiser’s topics. Ara Vardanyan, executive director of Hayastan All Armenian Fund, told reporters the topics were discussed in the 26th session of the Board of Trustees, which were proposed by the president of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan.

“There are two topics. The first is the program on deep well waters, with which we hope that irrigation process will begin in currently un-irrigated territories of Artsakh. It will greatly impact the development of agriculture. 50 thousand dollars are required for drilling each borehole. There are 180-200 similar wells. I can’t say that we’ll be able to completely fulfill it with the first fundraiser, but I will definitely emphasize that the program has been adopted not just for a single year.

We will continue it by seeking philanthropists”, Vardanyan said. The second program is the solar energy usage project. The Fund has previously implemented a similar program in Armenia and has gained experience. Next year, it will be possible to launch the solar energy usage program in almost all villages of Artsakh.

The first phase will include schools and community center, which will use solar energy for electricity purposes. Vardanyan expressed confidence that these two projects will be continuous, just like all other projects which were launched years ago. “During the 25 years of the Fund’s operations we had 700,000 donations worth 350 million dollars. The numbers are rather expressive.

A significant portion of the money is comprised through small donations. We are very proud that a large number of philanthropists support the Fund. We are sure that a day will come when we will state that 10 million philanthropists are supporting us, rather 700,000,” he said.