April 14, 2024 An update on our humanitarian aid mission of April 7! Our initial plan was to deliver aid to Khoznavar and Vaghatur villages. While our team members, led by Operations Lead Hovhannes were on the road, they received the unfortunate news that the enemy was targeting civilian cars as they were shooting in
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April 7, 2024 Happy Armenian Mother’s Day from the border to the Diaspora! Make jingalov hats, not war. While delivering aid, we are always greeted with gifts that display the deep gratitude and boundless generosity of our people. These women are always ready to share, regardless of how little they possess, a quality that is
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April 2, 2024 This weekend, we celebrated Surb Zatik (Holy Easter) with our community at the border village of Kornidzor! Kids painted eggs, created Easter-themed artwork to decorate our KorniTun community home, and visited the village church. We were thrilled to see the smiling faces of the 40 kids who participated in our Easter activities!
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March 24, 2024 Many families in Syunik, both locals and forcibly displaced refugees from Artsakh, need help, especially those living along Armenia’s border. Our operational team continues delivering much-needed humanitarian aid directly into the hands of those identified as vulnerable. We believe it is equally important to support both refugees and locals: doing so promotes
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March 22, 2024 December 2020. Cold winter. Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The AFA team delivered aid on Christmas night in the border villages, braving the snowy weather just as our Operations Lead Hovhannes did this past weekend while delivering aid in Syunik. That night, Christmas 2020, the last house we visited was home to the Sahakyan
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March 21, 2024 This past weekend, our operations lead, Hovhannes, drove down to Syunik to deliver aid to a total of 40 families in Tegh village near the border. The beneficiaries were a mix of locals as well as those forcibly displaced from Artsakh. Through collaboration with P&T NGO and the Tegh municipality, we were
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March 13, 2024 On International Women’s Day, March 8, All For Armenia organized a community dinner for the brave, hardworking, and resilient women of the border village of Kornidzor. The khorovatz meal was shared in AFA’s KorniTun community home and prepared with the help of local villagers. In attendance were AFA Vice President Alec Ohanian
Read MoreFebruary 19, 2024 What does it look like to spend one month volunteering in Kornidzor with All For Armenia? What does it look like to live in a border village, in AFA’s KorniTun community home? Our French-Armenian volunteer Matthias Hekimyan spent all of January in Kornidzor village, hosting martial arts and language classes for local
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February 4, 2024 Despite the cold weather conditions and snowstorm on the road, All For Armenia delivered 120 cubic meters of much-needed firewood to 40 families in the Tegh rural border community in February. The freezing temperatures in the region mean that heating homes is a top priority. The beneficiary families included locals as well
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January 30, 2024 “Train with both heart and soul without worrying about theory.” – Gichin Funakoshi, master and father of modern karate French-Armenian All For Armenia volunteer Matthias Hekimyan, who spent the month of January living and volunteering in KorniTun, hosted Kyokushin-style karate classes for village youth on KorniTun’s balcony.
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