5 questions with Artashes from Alaverdi 12 December 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Arnos Martirosyan 2 min read The Holidays are the perfect time to gather with our family and friends and have conversations which we often didn’t have time for during the year. These days we sat down with COAF SMART Center student…
Beauty salon: an emerging business in Armenia’s Debet village 21 December 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read Things one can hardly find in an ordinary Armenian village will soon make their way to Lori’s Debet village. An urban-style multiservice beauty salon and a French bakery (boulangerie) are among the emerging…
The young faces of Lori’s Aznvadzor village 12 December 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read Not far from Lori’s third-largest city of Vanadzor, between the concave slopes of the Bazum mountain range, there is a village called Aznvadzor (Azniv = sincere, dzor = gorge) with a population of more than…
The older one is engaged in tailoring and dreams of becoming a programmer-chemist, while the younger one is engaged in crocheting and dreams of becoming an artist-tailor. The Poghosyan sisters are united by tennis, love of South Korean contemporary music, and engineering.
Endless plains and mountains reaching to the clouds, and ravines hanging from the fields, through which Dzoraget flows. This year-round panorama can be viewed from the balcony of almost every house in Dzoragyugh.
“Oh, wow” is probably the best expression in the Lori dialect to convey the region’s landscape in all its beauty.
The hidden energy of Vanadzor and one of its youngest artists 3 December 2021 By Nane Vardanyan 2 min read “There is a hidden potential and immense energy in Vanadzor (the third-largest city of Armenia),” believes 19-year-old Levon Harutyunyan, a former student of Lori’s COAF SMART Center. The energy is within urban artists who play…
Martin and the new sportsground in Getashen village 21 November 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read The sports enthusiasts of Armenia’s Getashen village (Armavir region) have had a big excitement lately. The gym of their community school has finally been renovated, and they’re now attending sports classes with bells on!…
Penning a new chapter in the history of Armenian cheesemaking 13 November 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 2 min read LEVELING UP WITH CHEESEUP! Time, patience, practice, money, and quarts of freshly-produced nutritious whole milk are invested in an emerging large-scale dairy project in the Lori region. Our new CheeseUp initiative, implemented…
Key highlights of CARC 2021 5 November 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 5 min read COAF’s 17-years’ on-the-ground experience in the villages of Armenia has become a manual of rural development with a variety of community development projects with their best practices and lessons learned. Our work bears fruit twofold when we…
When Kickboxing classes in Arteni were discontinued due to the epidemic and then moved to another community, Zohrab was most sad.
The 12-year-old Zohrab Nikolyan has been involved in professional kickboxing for three years, taking top positions in pan-Armenian and international tournaments.
Similar and unique: Torosyan brothers from Alaverdi 29 October 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 2 min read They do everything in twos․ People occasionally stop and stare at them. Teachers routinely mix up who said what. Meet one of the famous duos of the COAF SMART Center, identical twins Hayk and Hrachik…
Debet, the village of red tile roofs: coming soon 22 October 2021 By Nane Vardanyan 3 min read “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” John Kennedy There are many living difficulties in rural communities, such as lack of drinking and irrigation water, gas supply, public transportation system, damaged roads,…
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