Multiplying Our Success ANNUAL REPORT 2 0 1 6 Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report
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Multiplying Our Success ANNUAL REPORT 2 0 1 6 Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report CONTENTS Chairman’s Letter 5 Our Mission 7 2016 at a Glance 8 Geographies Served 10 COAF Programs 13 Education 14 Healthcare 16 Child & Family Support 18 Community & Infrastructure 20 Statistics 22 Our Supporters 24 Board & Leadership 26 Our Team 28 Financials & Charts 30 2 3 Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report CHAIRMAN’S LETTER t is with great joy and help of our medical professionals, gratitude that I share our 2016 we successfully instituted dozens of Iaccomplishments. medical, dental and mental health programs benefitting children and 2016 has been a transformative their families. year for COAF. We started the implementation of our SMART Thirteen years ago, I founded programs in six villages and the Children of Armenia Fund to commenced the construction of our improve every aspect of life in our SMART campus. The SMART model village communities populated with is designed to bring remote village high-potential young people. We communities to the world’s stage use education as our springboard for through education and technology. success, we have found opportunity We expect our SMART model to amidst tragedy, growth amidst make sustainable improvements destruction and hope amidst what across all areas of rural Armenian would have been an undefined life. Today, a total of six SMART future. Rooms and two SMART Safe Rooms Today in 2017, we celebrate are fully operational, providing our commitment with the first access to the latest technologies generation of COAF graduates, a and serving as an oasis of education generation of healthy, educated, and entrepreneurship. entrepreneurial young adults Based on our successes, our objective committed to reshaping Armenia, is to expand our scope to cover most They represent the more than of rural Armenia. 67,000 people we have helped since inception. During 2016 we made substantial progress advancing education In closing, I thank you once again and improving health in our rural for the unwavering generosity and communities. We were proud ongoing support that improves the to partner with 32 schools in 29 lives and guarantees the futures of villages to implement after-school all of Armenia’s children. clubs and summer camps. With the Dr. Garo H. Armen Founder and Chairman 4 5 Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report SECURING THE FUTURE OF ARMENIA’S CHILDREN AND HELPING TO FULFILL THEIR TRUE POTENTIAL OUR MISSION PROGRAMS WHY RURAL ARMENIA? Children of Armenia Fund With the help of our generous Due to the hardships of rural (COAF) is a non-profit, non- supporters, we employ strategic life, Armenians are emigrat- governmental organization programs in the areas of edu- ing in large numbers. Village that uses community-led cation, healthcare, child and communities lack adequate approaches to reduce rural family services, community healthcare, economic, edu- poverty. engagement and economic cational and social opportu- development. nities. Children, together with We began our work in 2004, their families, have the potential launching with one small village for revitalizing the fabric of com- and eventually expanding to 44. munity life. COAF’s work trans- Utilizing our innovative cluster forms the lives of rural children village model approach, we and their families, and in doing have helped more than 67,000 so, helps build a prosperous fu- people. ture for Armenia. WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE? l 100% LOCAL pledge education partners COAF’s Founder/Chairman and Education is the lynchpin of We are proud to work with Board of Directors underwrite all advancement. Our programs local partners and support the administrative costs. This means utilize the most up-to-date economy of the region. Our that every dollar donated by our educational modules and 40-person staff and over 150 supporters goes directly toward technologies. local contractors, work on site, funding COAF programs and side by side with village residents, projects. consultants, community leaders and local government officials. 6 7 Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report 2016 AT A GLANCE With a focus on youth empowerment, we expanded our coverage to reach 44 villages SMART Safe Room in Aygehovit 9,599 PEOPLE USED SMART ROOMS ased on its unprecedented In addition to all of the new success, COAF continued developments, we continued our work Bto establish SMART Rooms in Armavir and Aragatsotn regions. In covering more villages in 2016. These Tavush and Shirak, we expanded to 2 SMART SAFE ROOMS IN TAVUSH serve as community-based facilities include our programs in the four cluster that provide access to COAF programs villages of Berdavan, Zorakan, Ptghavan through the use of technology and and Archis. In Artsakh, we provided telecommunications, as well as English short-term crisis interventions. self-learning platforms, such as the Thirteen new communities from Shirak 6 Rosetta Stone software. The SMART SMART ROOMS IN LORI and Tavush regions joined the COAF Rooms test out the curriculum of the beneficiary community pool, bringing SMART Initiative before expanding it the overall number of areas we support to the SMART Campus. The innovative to 44 communities in five regions. At programs of the SMART Campus will the local level, COAF’s economic impact target to serve 150,000 people. was significant as we helped create SMART Center (model) Two SMART Safe Rooms were over 200 positions for COAF-supported established in Tavush - a region where club leaders, health educators, social civilians, including children, are under workers, psychologists, drivers, food 150,000 the constant threat of hostilities from providers, construction workers and TARGET POPULATION Azerbaijan. SMART Safe Rooms provide others. an area of refuge for children and adults, Thirty-nine different programs in along with drinking water, electric education, healthcare, child and 20 energy, illumination and ventilation. ACRE CAMPUS family care and community support The SMART Center construction is continued to be implemented across underway in the region of Lori in COAF villages. tandem with COAF’s core programs 40 in healthcare and education. SMART VILLAGES TO BENEFIT Center is the largest project in rural village history of Armenia. 14,000 SQ. FT BUILDING 8 9 Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report GEOGRAPHIES SERVED ARTSAKH PROGRAM VILLAGES SERVED: n April, COAF launched an important • Providing a wound suction device to AKORI KARAKERT humanitarian effort in Artsakh, following Stepanakert military hospital, as its ARAGATSAVAN KARINJ the four-day escalation on the Artsakh- current protocols were insufficient for ARCHIS KOGHBAVAN I Azerbaijani border. We were among the the responses to emergency needs. AREVADASHT KOTI first to deploy and conduct a preliminary • A 7-day intensive training course for 18 AREVATSAG LANJIK needs assessment on the ground through healthcare physicians and nurses from ARGINA LERNAGOG initial consultations with community Stepanakert and surrounding regions. ARTAMET MARTS ARTENI MARTUNI leaders and families. Three successive visits • Direct psychological assistance, including AYGEHOVIT MEGHRASHEN 67,393 immediately following the war allowed us group and individual counseling BAGARAN METS AYRUM PEOPLE IMPACTED BY PROGRAM to further our understanding of the local for all displaced families in shelters. BAGHRAMYAN MYASNIKYAN communities and build strong working • A 3-day training course on “First BENIAMIN PTGHAVAN relationships with key entities in Martuni Psychological Aid in Emergency BERDAVAN SARDARapaT and Martakert, including ministries, regional Situations” and “Stress and Trauma”, DALARIK SARNAGHBYUR administrators, hospitals and schools. which included 18 local educators. DEBED SHENIK 44 After identifying the most pressing • A follow-up training course VILLAGES SERVED DSEGH TALVORIK issues, our humanitarian mission focused with 15 local educators and a DZORAGYUGH TUMANYAN its initial interventions on first aid and school psychologist focusing on GETASHEN VAHAGNI psychological assistance. It included: theory and practical applications. GUSANAGYUGH VANAND • An intensive 3-day first aid training course • A 10-day summer camp that served HATSIK VARDAKAR and first aid kits for 21 primary heathcare over 250 school children from the HOROM YERVANDASHAT 5 REGIONS providers from conflict-bordering villages. Martuni and Martakert regions. HUSHAKERT ZORAKAN 10 11 Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report Children of Armenia Fund ■ Annual Report COAF PROGRAMS 2016 Programs Across the COAF Villages n 2016, COAF’s interventions in over 44 communities resulted in $2.65 M 807 Iimproved education, healthcare PEOPLE USED THE facilities and practices, social and INVESTED WATER RESERVOIR psychological support to families IN VILLAGES IN YERVANDASHAT and child development programs for pre-natal through high school age. COAF created over 200 jobs under its programs and construction projects. Local professionals, including 7 200+ NEW SCHOOL JOBS teachers, doctors, nurses, social CAFETERIAS BUILT CREATED workers, speech therapists and school psychologists, were able to improve their qualifications through professional training, mentorship and seminars. 26,167 PEOPLE USED All of COAF’s policies and programs INFRASTRUCTURE (education, psychological services, FACILITIES financial and social