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.

Application deadline: October 20. Apply here.

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.

What problems do young people in Tavush region face and what opportunities do they have? All this is summarized in the recently published report “Labor Rights of Youth in Tavush Region: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities”.

Ernest Khanumyan talks about the research and its results on the air of “Tavush” TV Company with Arpine Yeritsyan, Head of the Civic Youth Center, Smbat Tsutsulyan, Specialist of the Ijevan Center of the Unified Social Service of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and Gagik Mazmanyan, Senior Inspector of the Department of Health and Safety Supervision of Workers of the Northern Regional Center of the Health and Labor Inspectorate of the Republic of Armenia.

Join the discussion to learn about the protection of labor rights of young people in Tavush region, the current state of the labor market in our region and not only.

“Civic Youth Center” community development NGO started a series of two-day media literacy courses in the fall of 2022 for the youth of Ijevan, Dilijan, Berd and Noyemberyan communities of Tavush region.After the courses, the participants got the chance to present their projects aimed at combating against disinformation in the sub-grant competition.

On the pavilion of Tavush TV, the winners of the sub-grant were hosted. We talked about the project, participation, implementation of the project and the importance of such projects.

Our guests are:

Hayk Amirkhanyan – Head of the “Media Literacy in Border Communities” project

Neli Nersisyan – Head of “Media Berd” project

Araqsya Amiraghyan – Head of “Informed border” project

Mariam Ghukasyan – the trainer of the project

Our guest at the Tavush TV pavilion is Sargis Alaverdyan, a participant of the 44-day war. Sargis left for mandatory military service in 2019 and had been a soldier for a year when the war began. He was wounded on the very first day of the war.

The analysis of the movie “An interview with God” is presented.

Paul Asher (Brenton Thwaites), an up-and-coming journalist, returns home after covering the war in Afghanistan to find his life falling apart. His marriage is near collapse, and he’s in the grips of a personal crisis he struggles to understand. And more pressing, a soldier he befriended on the front lines is waging his own battle after discharge and Paul is desperately trying to rescue him. But the life of the young journalist takes a strange turn when he is given an opportunity too intriguing to face: an interview with a man (David Strathairn) who claims to be God.

At the Tavush TV Pavilion, we discussed the need for regional media, problems of survival, the responsibility of the media, the targets of the regional media, and again and again the topics of media literacy.

We also talked about the idea and continuation of “Infocom”, the “marzoom” project already loved by our viewers.

“Any war, any terrorism physically affects a specific number of people, but psychologically affects the entire population… And not dealing with the mental health of the whole society is as dangerous as not dealing with physical and mental problems of specific people.”

In our pavilion, we talk with psychologist Armen Bejanyan, psychiatrist Armen Soghoyan, and director of “The Pahapan Development Fund,” psychologist Inga Harutyunyan about war as stress, stress management, and the negative consequences of living under chronic stress, psycho-physical diseases, and we also discuss the consequences of war; the reality of dealing with grief, how to live after a loss, the role of a psychologist as a supporter, when a psychiatrist needs to intervene, and how people, relatives, or society can help or hinder the bereaved.
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This program is carried out under the “STRIVING for a better future. Community and Civil Society Resistance in Armenia” (STRIVE) program, which is co-financed by the European Union and implemented by NEF Belgium in partnership with “AGAT” Center for the Protection of Rights of Women with Disabilities NGO, “BLEJAN” Environmental, Social, Business Support NGO, “Dilijan Youth Cooperation Center” NGO and “Resource Center” Foundation for Women’s Development.

“I am happy to be in Tavush, one of the most important regions of Armenia.” Tavush TV with Fan Yong, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Armenia.

Ambassador Yong visited Tavush to get acquainted with our region and discuss the vision that will enable the PRC to support the development of the region.

In our pavilion, we talk with psychiatrist Armen Soghoyan and psychologist Armen Bejanyan about the impact of the war situation, post-traumatic stress disorders, ways to overcome mental health problems, first psychological support, and other issues.

Since 2021, free psychological counseling has been available in Tavush region for all the people affected by the war.

The 1940 visits have already been carried out, about 100 psychologists have had about 250hours of training, 84 schoolchildren and 356 disabled children have received psychological support. Due to the project, reintegration into society and entry into the labor market has been facilitated for more than 200 direct beneficiaries.

FREE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC COUNSELING AND FIRST AID NUMBERS IN TAVUSH

Dilijan

Inga Vatinyan, psychologist

Mobile: 098 300 847

Zhanna Kocharyan, psychologist

Mobile: 094 624 122

Lilia Poghosyan, psychiatrist

Mobile: 094 747 778

Ijevan

Anush Maralchyan, psychologist

Mobile: 093 440 540

Ani Melkumyan, psychologist

Mobile: 093 745 818

Gayane Bablumyan, psychiatrist

Mobile: 094 686 262

Noyemberyan

Kristine Vardanyan, psychologist

Mobile: 094 443 747

Berd

Varduhi Mirozyan, psychologist

Mobile:  094 767 973

This program is carried out under the “STREAMING for a better future. Community and Civil Society Resistance in Armenia” (STRIVE) program, which is co-financed by the European Union and implemented by NEF Belgium, in partnership with “AGAT” Center for the Protection of Rights of Women with Disabilities NGO, “BLEJAN” Environmental, Social, Business Support NGO, “Dilijan Youth Cooperation Center” NGO, and “Resource Center” Foundation for Women’s Development.

The program was filmed within the framework of the “Support Program for the Neutralization of the Effects of COVID-19 for the Eastern Partnership Countries” project implemented by the “Man in Need” NGO; in cooperation with the “Pahapan” charitable foundation. The program was prepared with the financial support of the European Union.”Tavush” TV Company is responsible for the content, and it does not necessarily express the views of the European Union.

We talk about media literacy, information flows, misinformation and related topics with Gegham Vardanyan, editor-in-chief of the Media Initiatives Center’s Media.am website, and Armen Sargsyan, media expert of the “Project Harmony Armenia” organization.

#TavushMedia staff and young reporters have also participated in the discussion.