August 7 was the last day of the three-day camp organized with the support of the “Ararat” Foundation in Koti village.

Our correspondent from Noyemberyan, Vera Sahakyan, tells about the children’s activities, the gifts they received and the supporters of the camp.



“Rolan” international children’s film festival was launched in Armenia for the 18th time.

On July 29, the children, teenagers, and parents Ijevan community had the opportunity to watch the films of award-winning international filmmakers in the Diocese of Tavush.

According to Mery Gevorgyan, the director of the “Arevik” socio-educational center of Tavush Diocese, “The audience of Ijevan participated in the film watching with great excitement and enthusiasm, especially during the summer vacation. The film series included in the framework of the festival was a great opportunity to spend a nice time with the family.”

Within the framework of the film festival, the children and teenagers living in border areas of Tavush region were actively involved and participated in the program.

“It is very important for us that children are able to get to know new worlds through films and animations. It is other people’s culture, their own culture, and all that will interest them today. If children are able to live what life will be for them with interesting plots from childhood, they will already be ready…” says Nare Aramyan, the director of the Youth Creative Center.

This year, 75 films from 28 countries were screened within the framework of the “Rolan” international festival of children’s and teenagers’ films.

The festival aims to create favorable conditions through the active involvement and participation of children, teenagers, and young people using it as a stable and reliable international platform.



July 18 was an exam day for the students of Arm Studio Theatre, which has been operating for about one year. Due to the knowledge they received and their acting skills, they performed a play and monologues performances.

Narek Haykazyan and Tsovik Martirosyan, actors of the National Academic Theatre named after Gabriel Sundukyan, came to share their professional advice with them and evaluate them.

On July 15, Yerevan’s Real School students conducted first aid and tactics training within the framework of “Promoting Economic Growth and Innovation in Ijevan, through Public-Private Cooperation and Creation of Community Ecosystems.” The project is implemented within the framework of the EU Community Leaders for Economic Growth regional grant program.

Vahe Khachatryan, a trainer of Real School, tells, “Within the framework of European Union grant InnoIjevan project is being implemented in Ijevan; an innovative center is being created, inside which Real School educational institute will also operate. We hold many events; today, we conduct first aid and tactics trainings, which are a part of the Real School curriculum.”

The main purpose of the InnoIjevan project is to increase economic employment in Ijevan and surrounding communities and reduce internal and external emigration. The main applicant of the program is Ijevan Municipality, which in cooperation with the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises and COWO Community Workplace, aims to create a platform for public-private cooperation and open dialogue aimed at creating a favorable business environment in Ijevan.

The program aims to promote innovative entrepreneurship, create favorable conditions for entrepreneurship development and increase the competitiveness of local SMEs operating in the fields of tourism, high-value agriculture, and food processing in and around Ijevan city.

Real School educational and cultural foundation will start operating in Ijevan at the beginning of the academic year. It offers professional training opportunities through trainings, work-based learning, and the development of hard and soft skills.

“Real School will open its branch in Ijevan in September 2022. The child must have completed the 9th grade to be admitted. In the Ijevan branch, we will have four workshops: UAV, engineering, robotics, computer, and biochemistry.” Real School has integral parts, and one of them is national dance, the event of which we held in the center of Ijevan one week ago. Now we are conducting an open first aid and tactics class. The next one will be the exhibition of the works of the students of Real School,” says Elina Romanova, an employee of the Ijevan branch of Real School.



Victoria Torosyan, our correspondent from Berdavan tells about the acting groups, their story and cultural daily hustle and bustle.



Another roundtable discussion is on the air on Tavush TV. This time we will speak about the main issues related to children’s rights in our region. Anzhela Atoyan, the coordinator of World Vision Armenia Tavush Regional Projects; Spartak Sargsyan, National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Armenian Charitable Foundation; and Harutyun Kocharyan, Head of the Family, Women, and Children’s Rights Protection Department of Tavush Regional Administration, are with us at the round table.



The presentation of the topic will be followed by a Roundtable discussion on Tavush TV.

33 years ago, in 1989, by adopting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the countries’ leaders made a historic promise to all the children of the world. During this program, we will present the articles of that Convention, which are often ignored. We are also going to speak about the protection and preservation of children’s rights and their equal opportunities in society.

Kindergarten No 1 in Dilijan has a new playground; on June 1, on International Children’s Day, the opening ceremony of the playground took place in Kindergarten No 1 in Dilijan.

The program was implemented due to the cooperation between Focus on Children Now Charitable Organization and Dilijan Municipality. Dilijan Municipality also supported the program of installing the playground in the amount of 10 % of the total cost of the program, which was paid from the community budget. 

The children of the kindergarten had prepared a beautiful event ahead of the playground opening, in line with the theme of the day.

For many years, the Focus on Children Now Charitable Organization has been involved in furnishing kindergartens in the RA and Artsakh, providing healthy food for preschoolers, and building playgrounds. Such kindergartens were also built in other communities of Tavush region. 

Games, bright colors, and smiles, our mosaic from Ijevan on Children’s Protection Day.

June 1 has been celebrated as International Children’s Day since 1950.

Armenia ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992, after which, in 1996, the RA Law on Children’s Rights was adopted. 

The articles of the Convention detail the individual rights of people under 18 (unless they are recognized as adults earlier by local law) to develop their full potential free from hunger, need, cruelty, exploitation, and other forms of abuse. Children’s rights include the relationships between children and their parents and other people, physical protection, free education, health care, and civil rights.  

On June 1, on the occasion of International Day of the Protection of Children’s rights, the Children and Youth Theatrical group of Bridge of Hope NGO came to congratulate the elders and children of the enlarged community of Ijevan. Derenik Demirchyan’s “Nazar the Brave” story was presented at the Ijevan Culture House.

The spectators of the theatrical performance were children and parents of the Child Development and Social Inclusion Center of the Bridge of Hope NGO Ijevan, students, teachers of public schools, and community residents. 

At the end of the performance, the staff and volunteers of the Bridge of Hope joined the city event and colored the children outside, maintaining the festive mood.

According to Hasmik Khacheyan, the leader of the theater group, “Children with and without disabilities perform on the stage. This is a great benefit first of all for the children, who take the stage, and another proof for the spectators that people with disabilities can do everything; we just need to create equal conditions for them.”