Expanding the Young Experts Team:

Dear donor,
Thanks to your donations, we continue to support the new generation of young experts. Communities in Armenia are full of problems. Journalists of this new generation have committed themselves to help communities through journalism and information technology. They believe that there is a "youth force" that can change the world. Today and every day, they are ready to invest in their capacities and raise community problems.
The goal of the project is to help and encourage Armenian youth, adolescents so that they can identify community issues and explore it.
Dear donor,
We present you the history and message of one of our young heroes, Susana, to the donors.
Hi, my name is Susanna. Let me tell you a little about it. I am studying in the 11th grade, in the nursing department. Apart from medicine, I have many and many other hobbies, like dancing. At my free time, I go to a dance group.
This was my first step in this program and I'm really impressed. I was able to get acquainted with team members and become part of this family. I am convinced that my influence will be great in strengthening the communities. Thank you.
These are our young experts. Due to your donations, we will continue to help them overcome the challenges and move forward. This program makes the community problems, challenges more visible and changes the lives of young people every day and the community becomes one of their priorities.
Dear donors, your donations are still being directed towards the formation of stable and strong communities. We are ready to share the progress we will record in the near future. We are grateful for your support and high impact. Young experts are waiting for you and every gesture is important to them.

Knowledge check in the Arapi community:

Dear donor,

Thanks to you we continue to implement this program in remote communities of Armenia and in Yerevan.

With your support, the process of discovering schoolchildren's abilities, enhancing their knowledge, and returning them to school is ongoing. Education has become an important component of life for our beneficiaries.

Some of them today confess that undertaking this program will strengthen and retain the distant communities in Armenia. When you return to Armenia, you will see powerful and sustainable communities where children just smile.

The important process of providing basic education to 150 Armenian children is ongoing.

This time we stopped at the Arapi community.

The meeting was held in a community school where 15 Armenian schoolchildren were waiting for us. They had the opportunity to work both individually and teamily. In this community, beneficiaries
were asked to depict their school ten years later. They showed their school on posters in a creative and non-standard way. This was a great opportunity to understand their emotions and attitudes towards school.

Dear donor,

We present you one of our new beneficiaries, Maria's stories, her impressions from the program and the message to donors.

Hi, I'm Maria. I study at the sixth grade of the Arapi Secondary School in Shirak region. I am eleven years old. I live with my family and I love them very much. I attend a music school. I like singing, dancing, painting, and reading. I attach great importance to knowledge and education that will help me to realize my dream in the future. In the future, I want to become a doctor, to have my own hospital and to help poor families to get free medical care.

Dear donor,

We want to share with you an important day and see you and your love. Here it is.

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Once again thank you, dear donors, and remember that your every gesture is important for our team and our beneficiaries.

Beneficiaries' impact in communities:

Dear donor,

 

Due to your donations, we continue to support the young experts of the new generation. Armenian communities are full of problems and these experts want to solve these problems and live in stronger communities.

The main goal of the project is to encourage young people and teenagers of the Republic of Armenia to be able to identify community issues and offer solutions. And in order to be able to achieve the goals we need to periodically train the participants and guide them. 

Dear donor,

This time we want to introduce you the story of one of our beneficiaries, Elena and its impact on this program.

Hi, my name is Elena. I study at Yerevan State University's Faculty of International Relations. Now, I can say with confidence that I have a great impact on my community development process. It is a priority for me and this program gives us the key to solving the problems. I'm proud of wearing the ICT logo. These training courses give us the skills and abilities that can change the community situation. This is not only my commitment to this program but also full of work, love, and enthusiasm. Thank you for this opportunity.

These are our young experts. Due to your donations, we will continue to help them overcome the challenges and move forward. During our meeting with them in our office, the program's plans and steps were presented in the communities. They are related to solving new problems and revealing their causes. It is important to consider the idea of "teamwork" among them and its advantages. That is why they represent the composition, title, and role of each team member in the team.

Thanks again for high impact on this program. The future of communities becomes visible thanks to your support. Today and every day, we are waiting for you and hope those Armenian communities will become more active and prosper through this program. Thank you for supporting us.

Beneficiaries’ creative works:

Dear donor,
Thanks to you, we continue to implement this program in remote communities of Armenia and in the capital Yerevan. With your support, the process of self-identification and disclosure of school-age children continues. Education for our beneficiaries has become the key to the solution of life's problems and priorities. Some of them today confess that they are

 Dear donor,
ready to continue their non-formal training with great enthusiasm and be an important part of society. Part of our target group, living in difficult conditions, sometimes even isolating themselves from their surroundings, miss educational training and it leads to psychological complications and breaks their normal rhythm of their lives.
We present you one of our new beneficiaries - Larisa's story, its impressions of the program and the message to donors.

Hi, my name is Larisa. I am studying at Yerevan School N194. I am happy to be a beneficiary of this program and become part of this fairy tale. During the meeting, we had the opportunity to work both individually and by group methods. During personal work, I introduced my

preferences; future plans, and, of course, the values ​​that matter to me in this life, be creative, be faithful, and so on. I want to become a businesswoman. Today's meeting was impressive and I hope this program will be continuous. Thank you.

In the last part of the meeting, the participants were divided into groups. They were instructed to image their school ten years
later. Beneficiaries showed their posterity on a blank and non-standard poster ten years later, where robots and aliens have come to help them. Here's our joyful and enduring meeting.
Once again thank you, dear donors, and remember that every gesture is important for our team and its beneficiaries.

The stories of young heroes:

Dear donor,

Due to your donations, we continue to support the young experts of the new generation. Armenian communities are full of problems and young journalists want to address these issues and live in a powerful and stable community. We call them "little heroes" because they have a great influence on community empowerment. This time we want you to get acquainted with the beneficiaries closer and present you their stories. In the pictures are Marine and Tamara. They live in Ararat province. Marine is a purposeful, communicative girl, and which is most important, she is interested in her environment. She likes to participate in informal classes, gain new knowledge and skills. Participating in non-formal training, she is now able to voice community issues and think about innovative solutions. Tamara also lives in a community that has many problems. Although facing a variety of challenges, she continues to overcome difficulties and move forward. She enjoys painting and composing in her free time. The main goal of the project is to help the active youth of Armenia to make their voices louder and solve the problems of the community. All this can be achieved when beneficiaries have the opportunity to participate in non-formal trainings, interactive meetings, where they will have the opportunity to express their ideas freely and not constrained. Due to you the problems and challenges of the community become more visible day by day and the perceptions of the young people on the community idea change.

Dear donor,

We want to introduce you Mary's creative image of our beneficiaries. She has created a hero who is always interested in community problems. Here is Lui and his story. Hi, I'm Lui. I live in Vanadzor. I have been created to make all the communities in Armenia more interesting and colorful. I have many friends, but I always welcome new ones with pleasure and smile. I like to participate in discussions, interesting topics. The community is my priority and I am always with the community. I hope in the near future everyone will know me and together we will be able to build a stable and strong society. Once again thank you. We want to share with you an important day and see you and your love. Here it is.

#GivingTuesday is a global movement that kicks off the biggest giving season of the year with charity and gratitude. It inspires people to take collective action to improve their communities, give back in better, smarter ways to the charities and causes they believe in, and help create a better world. Zartonk-89 has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities, and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide. We would like to celebrate this important and special day with you. Join this movement, make a donation and help the beneficiaries. Thank you for being with us.

The children, #GivingTuesday and You.

Dear friends and supporters,


Thanks to you, we continue to implement this program in remote communities of Armenia. Our year-end holidays are approaching and our beneficiaries are eagerly waiting for your response.
Your every gesture is important for the children. Armenian children are waiting for you.

Dear donor,
We would love to tell you about the two beneficiaries in the picture and especially share the successes the author of which are you. Their lives have already changed due to you.

Abraham and Victoria live in Khor Virap village of Ararat region. They are friends and they study at the secondary school after Margar Hovhannisyan in Khor Virap. Living in hard and difficult situations, the children performed a variety of physical work instead of going to school. As a result, they missed the education-related courses, they were ashamed to communicate freely with their classmates and, of course, they have difficulty overcoming the challenges. The psychological picture of Abraham and Victoria was also painful. They felt constrained, indifferent, and non-communicative. They changed their daily lives after this program. Participating in non-formal methodology, they completed their missed knowledge and, which is the most important they became an important part of their community. This is one of the best examples of high impact on this program. Now they are confident that they have changed.

The goal of the program is to help the children left without education to give them the opportunity to complete the missed knowledge. All this is going on. Our team met with new beneficiaries who joined the program. Through the posters, participants demonstrated the importance of education, its role in their lives, how they can succeed through education and have a favorite profession. In the pictures, you see their smiles. Each of them is a personality and a new wave of this world. The followings are the topics assigned to the beneficiaries: «Why education is important to me», and «Education is the key to success»: The meeting allowed children to communicate with others and think about the importance of education. They were delighted to share their ideas and suggestions. The topics were inspirational for the participants.
Once again thank you. We want to share with you an important day and see you and your love. Here it is.

#GivingTuesday is a global movement that kicks off the biggest giving season of the year with charity and gratitude. It inspires people to take collective action to improve their communities, give back in better, smarter ways to the charities and causes they believe in, and help create a better world.


Zartonk-89 has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities, and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide. We would like to celebrate this important and special day with you. Join this movement, make a donation and help the beneficiaries. Thank you for being with us. Armenian children will wait for you.

The Response of the Project's New Beneficiaries:

Dear donor,

Thanks to you, we continue to implement this program in remote communities of Armenia. This time, 10 beneficiaries from Yerevan's N194 School joined the project. We are ready to share the impressions and responses of our new participants with you.

The goal of the program is to help the children left without education. Give them the opportunity to complete the missed knowledge.

A part of the children of our target group, living in socially difficult conditions, performs a variety of hard work, sometimes even they get isolated from their friends, which leads to the lack of capacity, intolerance, and lack of ability to work in the team.

Our working group welcomed the new beneficiaries at "Zartonk-89" NGO's office. They listened about the impact of the program and the reported successes with great enthusiasm.

For the first time, the new participants of Yerevan took part in the meeting.

We'd selected topics for individual and group work in advance.

The topic of individual work was "My School" and the topic of group work was "How to Empower My Community with Education" and "How Can I Help My Friend with My Knowledge"

The meeting started with a separate section of individual work.

Through images, the beneficiaries illustrated their school, their teachers, and the environment where they learn. Each participant presented their work in their own way.

This was a great opportunity to understand the satisfaction of the participants from the educational environment. The next important fact was that by presenting their works they began to know one another better.

During the group work, the participants were divided into groups. The children of the first group described the steps through which the community could be empowered. They were sure that education was the best tool for a powerful community.

The children of the second group described how they could help their friends through education.
The participants liked these interesting topics. They used creative elements in their works.

The work was carried on along with discussions and exchange of ideas. Teams presented their works in the end. At the end of the meeting, an agreement was made to provide feedback and periodically inform the news about the program. They returned with enthusiasm and expressed willingness to inform their friends about the project.

Dear donor,

Once again, we are pleased to mention that thanks to your support for this project, the solution to the problem of children's education in Armenia is in process. You have created a strong and stable connection among our beneficiaries. This time 10 beneficiaries had an opportunity to smile and be involved.

Your every gesture is encouraging for children in Armenia.

We present you Yana's story and a message addressed to donors.

Hi, my name is Yana. I am twelve years old. I study in the 7th grade. Let me tell you a little about myself. The participation in this program made me less constrained and I can work freely in the team and share my ideas with my friends. In free time I love to paint and dance. This program helped me to enrich my knowledge and develop my skills. I became less constrained, communicative and courageous. I also acquired new friends.

I am grateful to all donors and those who try to make our dreams come true. Thank you.