The island of peaceful vacations: Concept Hotel in Lori, Armenia 8 May 2022 By Nane Vardanyan 4 min read Al-fresco yoga, afternoon walks in nature, and cozy wine and cheese evenings under the starry sky are some things you’ll enjoy doing on the small island of peaceful vacations: COAF’s Concept Hotel. Concept Hotel by COAF…
Rural, yet urban: the first-ever beauty salon in Debet village 17 April 2022 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read The frequency people visit beauty salons varies. However, we all need them from time to time for self-care, a fresher look, or a slight boost of motivation. Until recently, people in the…
Roads that divide. Roads that connect. 5 March 2022 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read While the world is building new highways and figuring out ways to avoid traffic jams, proper public transportation remains a yet unachievable human right in the villages of Armenia. The rural roads connecting villages and towns…
Debed Delights brings a new food culture to Lori 26 February 2022 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Tatevik Aghababyan 3 min read Food connoisseurs will soon have a new gourmet destination in Armenia’s Lori region. A new bakery-restaurant called Debed Delights is opening in Debet village, a community of over 800 people, famous for its…
COAF’s geography and the path forward 5 February 2022 By Nane Vardanyan 4 min read One of the most frequently asked questions we get is where we work and how large the COAF geography is. This four-minute read will answer all questions regarding it. COAF offices are located in Yerevan, New York, at the COAF…
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…
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…
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,…
Wrapping up the first half of 2021 in Armenia’s Debet village 22 August 2021 By Nane Vardanyan 6 min read In 2021, COAF reimagined what an Armenian village can be like. We came up with an innovative rural development model called “SMART village”․ If you follow our work, you may have heard about Debet village…
A new child development center on its way to Hatsik village 9 July 2021 By Nane Vardanyan 4 min read “Everything has its own time” is also true for the period children begin to improve their social or communication difficulties. “Indeed, timing is an important factor for overcoming speech difficulties. The younger the child, the…
Debet is a small mountainous village seated on the right bank of the Pambak river in the northern Lori region of Armenia. It took its name from another namesake river (Debed) that passes through the village and is well-known from the most celebrated Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan’s works.
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