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Mets Ayrum: Lori’s Tower of Babel

Blog, Photoblog, Village lifeBy coafAugust 26, 2020

On top of one of the mountains of the Lori region, stands a village called Mets (means big) – Mets Ayrum. During the 1980-90s, it became the new home for newcomers from Gandzak, Baku, Getashen, Kushch, Shahumyan, Erkej, Zhurnabad, and other habitats.

The COAF story of Aragatsavan village

Blog, Success, Village lifeBy coafAugust 21, 2020

The road to Aragatsavan village school is not an ordinary one. While the majority of roads in Armenia are paved with asphalt, this one is a stone road reconstructed by COAF and the local authorities in 2011.

The story of 14-year-long efforts in Myasnikyan

Blog, Success, Village lifeBy coafAugust 6, 2020

Myasnikyan village school didn’t have a bathroom until almost a decade ago. To “use the bathroom”, children had to leave the building and walk towards a smallish shelter that was built on that purpose. The decaying building lacked electricity, running water, and heat.

Warm and hospitable: “Welcome to our village, Sarnaghbyur”

Blog, Photoblog, Village lifeBy coafAugust 5, 2020

If you’re surrounded by mountains, the spring water is fresh and cool, there are cabbage, carrot, and potato fields all over the area, it means you’re in Sarnaghbyur village of the Shirak region.

Welcome to Hatsik, the fruit heaven of Armavir

Blog, Success, Village lifeBy coafJuly 26, 2020

When driving to Hatsik village of the Armavir Province, you will meet a street sign saying Nairi. Don’t worry – you aren’t lost. It is the Hatsik you were looking for, the village known as Nairi during the Soviet era.

Peace of mind amidst the shelling: life on the borderline

Blog, News, Village lifeBy coafJuly 18, 2020

“We are used to hearing the sound of shelling,” calmly says the 17-year-old Laura Yesyan who lives in the borderline Aygehovit village of the Tavush region. Since the Nagorno-Karabakh War, people are used to living with the tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

The state of emergency in borderline Aygehovit

Blog, Photoblog, Village lifeBy coafJuly 10, 2020

The first month of the summer brought the state of emergency to the village, shortly after here appeared the first case of coronavirus. The mask became as important in Aygehovit as in other hot areas of the pandemic.

A village with dignity: the neat and tidy Lernagog

Blog, Success, Village lifeBy coafJuly 8, 2020

It’s 5 in the morning, and the sun is about to seize the smallish village of Lernagog in the smallest region of Armenia, the Armavir province, that mainly consists of agricultural lands.

It takes a village: the ways COAF changed Karakert

Blog, Success, Village lifeBy coafJune 26, 2020

In 2003, COAF Founder Garo Armen was driving in Karakert village of the Armavir Province without knowing that place would become his reason for starting COAF.

“40 lies”. The honey lovers of Karinj village

Blog, Photoblog, Village lifeBy coafJune 8, 2020

According to the “40 lies” of grandpa Valod describing the villages of the Lori region (this is how the people of Karinj named them), Karinj villagers eat honey a lot. Grandpa Valod is no longer alive, but his “40 lies” have widely spread across Lori.

Ararat, Araks, and wine: we are in Getashen village

Blog, Motivation, Village lifeBy coafJune 3, 2020

From early spring to late fall every year, pairs of white storks descend onto Getashen and the nearby wetland-adjacent villages of the Armavir region.

The land of inspiration: Dsegh village

Blog, Motivation, Village lifeBy coafMay 14, 2020

There is a place in Armenia that won’t leave you indifferent, where you will listen to all the sounds of nature and won’t get enough of the views, fragrances, and feelings.

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