By Elaine Krikorian
YEREVAN, Armenia—One of the unshakeable first questions any newcomer to Armenia has to answer is “Why are you here?” This question is not asked to make small talk, as it might be in any well-traveled tourist destination of the world; on the part of the asker, an Armenian from Armenia, the question comes [...]

Eva Rivas will represent Armenia in Oslo.
On Feb. 14, ARMTV, Armenia’s public television company, held the country’s national final to select the winner(s) that will represent Armenia at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway from May 25-29. The event took place in the National Opera Theatre in Yerevan and was broadcast live. Nine [...]

An Interview with Alla Berberyan

Armenia Tree Project (ATP) recently announced the addition of Alla Berberyan to its team of program managers in Yerevan. Berberyan has a degree in linguistics and literature from Yerevan State University and a master’s in political science and international affairs from the American University of Armenia (AUA). She has completed a [...]

NEW YORK—Armenia Fund is implementing a major renovation of the community school of Artsni, a village in Armenia’s Lori region, with financing provided by the government of India.
The project entails the reconstruction of one of the two main buildings of the two-story school, which was built in 1962. At the conclusion of the initiative, the [...]

By Garo Nazarian, DDS
There are endless countries, territories, and states across our globe in dire need of dental care for the underprivileged. During the past two summers, I spent a week providing dental care for the orphaned and disadvantaged children of Armenia. This irreplaceable and one of a kind experience was fulfilling, gratifying, and educational [...]

An empire’s worst fear is to fall. An ethnicity’s worst fear is to vanish. In modern times, the snowball of disappearance picks up speed in any diaspora each time someone from that small tribe finds his or her companion outside of it, or is disconnected with their roots. The Armenian Diaspora is no different. Among [...]

YEREVAN—In 2009, Armenia Tree Project (ATP) planted more than 56,000 trees at dozens of urban and rural sites around the country as part of its Community Tree Planting (CTP) program. The huge public demand for trees and the professional capacity of ATP program staff, along with the production of fruit and decorative trees at the [...]

YEREVAN—In observance of International Volunteer Day, on Sat., Dec. 5, the Armenian Volunteer Corps (AVC) organized “One Day for Yerevan,” the first of a series of community service projects bringing together volunteers who give one day for various projects throughout Armenia.
One hundred volunteers came together to clean Dzidzernagapert Park and the surrounding areas. Dzidzernagapert Park [...]

Campers studying.
Snow has fallen. It is the last day of September, and Javakhk’s landscape is white again. In the village of Heshtia, Sisters Haguintha, Datevik, and Serpouhi smile at the beauty before them.  They touch the shimmering, powdery softness and look around their convent grounds, surrounded with trees, and at the meandering, icy stream nearby which [...]

ATP provided seasonal jobs for more than 300 people from the Tsaghkaber, Jrashen, and Margahovit villages in 2009 to plant trees grown at the Mirak Family Reforestation Nursery and in the Backyard Nursery Micro-Enterprise Program.
YEREVAN, Armenia—Armenia Tree Project (ATP) has been collaborating with World Wide Fund for Nature Armenian Branch (WWF Armenia) on an unprecedented [...]