COAF Opens Office in Yerevan

Namag.com, May 5, 2004

Yerevan, Armenia—May 5, 2004—The ceremony of opening the office of Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) took place in Yerevan. According to the COAF Chairman Garo Armen, the organization aims at working out programs concerning the areas of development of children in Armenia and alleviating their economic conditions. According to Armen, first of all these programs concern the children, living in rural areas, for whom COAF is going to create a simpler access to education and health systems. He stated that within 2004, COAF together with UNDP will implement the program in Karakert village estimated at about $1 million. According to Lise Grande, the Resident Representative of UNDP in Armenia, “UNDP has successfully implemented some projects aimed at decentralization and development of the RA communities for the recent years. COAF is going to become such organization.”