HUMANITARIAN AID FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR

On the eve of the new academic year, the International Committee of the Red Cross distributed aid, 60 schoolbags and stationery, to the children of the missing soldiers in Karabakh. The ceremony took place at the office of the Union of Relatives of the Missing Liberation Soldiers of NKR, the representatives of the NKR office of the ICRC Edgar Sargissian and Inga Avanessian were present. The chair of the organization Vera Grigorian said the Red Cross provides humanitarian aid to the union two or three times a year, which is distributed to poor families. Besides, every year on the eve of the academic year the Red Cross gives a surprise to the young children of the missing soldiers. In the beginning the amount of aid was bigger, 90 schoolbags, but over the past two years it was reduced, and the aid is distributed to 60 children from the capital and the regions. The head of the union says they implemented another project with the NKR Ministry of Social Security. 10 families of the missing soldiers got 11 thousand drams each, and 20 families were given food aid.
NVARD OHANJANIAN

Headlines for August 30, 2006

HUMANITARIAN AID FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
NVARD OHANJANIAN
On the eve of the new academic year, the International Committee of the Red Cross distributed aid, 60 schoolbags and stationery, to the children of the missing soldiers in Karabakh. The ceremony took ...
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