In Tavush village, AMAA has launched the “Tavush” community development program, aimed at creating comfortable living conditions, ensuring sustainable income, and fostering joint community life between local families and those forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Within the three-year program, a new neighborhood will be built in Tavush, consisting of 8 residential houses equipped with solar power stations. In addition, selected families will be provided with raspberry orchards, guesthouse businesses, and greenhouse farms with the opportunity to cultivate strawberries.

The program aims to create about 30 jobs, as well as provide agricultural machinery for cultivating the land plots of the selected families. To further strengthen both local and displaced families, they will also have the opportunity to engage in bakery and confectionery production, as well as juice, compote, and jam production.

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Throughout the program, various trainings and consultations will be carried out, enabling the selected families to independently manage their farms and businesses.

In an interview, the program’s coordination assistant, Elina Gasparyan, elaborates on the program’s goals and expected outcomes.

Since 2020, French doctors have been visiting Armenia and Artsakh in different phases. These days, the groups of doctors are in Tavush and visit the border villages of the region to support the medical personnel.

Levon Khachatryan, a French-Armenian doctor, and Armine Nadiryan, a cardiologist-surgeon, are at the Tavush TV pavilion.

Ernest Khanumyan talked with the doctors about the needs of the health sector of the border villages, the problems of the population and the activities of volunteer doctors.

As a result of the situation around the Lachin Corridor since December 12, the Armenian Red Cross Society has responded to the humanitarian needs of around 50 children housed in 8 guest houses in the city of Goris, Syunik Marz, in cooperation with the Syunik Administrative Center and Goris Community Hall.

First-aid classes, sand therapy sessions, a visit to Goris Art School, Ghapama preparation, and a tea party were also organized for the children.

Psychologists of the Armenian Red Cross Society and specially trained volunteers work with children according to the International Red Cross Model of Children’s Resilience, organizing special group activities that include conversations, reading, interactive games, and transfer of stress management skills, which contributes to stress relief and providing daily entertainment.

The ARCS is working closely with the Syunik Regional Administrative Center to organize a further response based on a strict need.