Your contribution to our achievements:

Dear donors, our partners, it's our pleasure to inform you that Zartonk-89 NGO has been awarded as TOP-RANKED and VETTED organization of 2016 by GlobalGiving as a sign of gratitude and our hard work. Our team highly appreciates this special gesture and wishes to share the success, achievements, and results that we recorded in this project. 

The main purpose of the project is to support the vulnerable and working children of the remote marzes of the Republic of Armenia to acquire basic education by using our specially designed course plan, also create free and unconstrained environment where children can communicate with their peers, acquire new friends and fully integrate into the society.

In the distant marzes of the Republic of Armenia being in vulnerable condition, children do manual hard work in their communities and villages, and as a result, they miss the opportunity of acquiring basic education which is a very important factor in the process of exploration and development of children's intellectual abilities. They become unconfident, self-contained, depressed, they don't get motivated to acquire knowledge which is essential for the rest of their lives.     

Dear donors, your donations were directed in the implementation of providing basic knowledge to our target group of children.

Our regional representatives conducted courses in their communities using non-formal educational methodology through interactive games.

Children were participating in the educational section with great enthusiasm and were asking questions about topics which greatly interested them.

In order to make the course more interactive, our specialists used presentations which gave more descriptive explanation to each topic.

This time the beneficiaries had opportunities to get basic knowledge about technological and digital means and to explore the modern information technologies, and by selecting as a tool the required information about different spheres, such as mathematics, physics, geography, history, etc. As a result, our target group reached to the conviction that one can get knowledge also from the internet. They were promised to learn foreign languages in the nearest future, so they can get knowledge also from various foreign literature.

By analyzing and examining our beneficiaries upcoming steps, their disposition of this program, their enthusiasm and expectations, we came to conclusion that in the future stages of the implementation of the project positive trends would be registered in distant communities, the number of participants will increase in our target group and in the nearest future we hope that the project will spread in all the villages and communities of all the distant marzes of the Republic of Armenia. We appreciate your support and your donations which got directed to the process of implementation of these essential steps.

Please find presented Zempira's story and her message to our donors.

Hello, I am Zempira. I love in Arapi community. From this course, I acquired knowledge which gives me power and motivation. I liked when our trainers taught us the basic computer and internet skills, how to search for books and information about the spheres we are interested. During my free time, I like drawing and sewing. I hope that the acquired knowledge will help me to become the best specialist in the field which I'll choose.

Zartonk-89 NGO and NO HATE SPEECH MOVEMENT:

Zartonk- 89 NGO continues its active participation in No Hate Speech Movement in Armenia. The volunteers of our organization conducted a meeting with our beneficiaries in the village Khor Virap of the Ararat region, during which they presented the movement to them and certainly the importance of the movement to the further activities of our organization. The children made small posters named NO HATE SPEECH with pleasure, and expressed great interest to be integrated into this movement also in future.

Vigen, who is the leader of youth projects of our organization, presented the importance and the need of the voluntary work during an interview with children and promised them to organize such kind of activities regularly.

The role of the active youth in our organization:

Zartonk-89 NGO wants to inform our donors, volunteers, beneficiaries that our organization includes the presentation of No HATE SPEECH Movement in the world during the conducted seminars and discussions, how one can get involved in this movement and of course to increase the rate of the involved young people. All the staff members, the regional executives, and volunteers are present at the meetings.

The staff members of our organization after participating in seminars, trainings, dialogues of local, international and European standards organize meetings during which the share with their experience, acquired knowledge and skills. This step is very important and responsible for us as due to it we create free environment, where the youth can express their ideas and suggestions, and of course get acquainted with different programs and events.

Our organization has frequently implemented various projects about human rights, democracy, and freedom of speech, pluralism, tolerance both in Yerevan and in different regions of the republic of Armenia.

The trainings have been implemented through non- formal education methodology. As a target, we have selected those young people who are motivated, active and want to get involved in the process of development of democratic institutions in our country. We have also come up with online initiatives including all the regions of the republic of Armenia.

During the recurrent meeting, the members of our organization: Astghik and Vigen presented the conducted programs, the results which were enlisted in Monitoring & Evaluation section.

Vigen, who participated in International Intercultural dialogue conducted in Ethnomir center of the Russian Federation, shared his knowledge and skills which he acquired during the meeting with the attendees and promised to come up with new suggestions and initiatives in the nearest future, which will help to increase the wide involvement of all the members and volunteers of Zartonk-89 NGO in NO HATE SPEECH movement both in local and in European standards.