Adopt-A-Village 2019 Որդեգրիր Մի Գյուղ 2019 the Silk Road Wine Trail Vayots Dzor, Armenia

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Adopt-A-Village 2019 Որդեգրիր Մի Գյուղ 2019 the Silk Road Wine Trail Vayots Dzor, Armenia Adopt-a-Village 2019 Որդեգրիր մի գյուղ 2019 The Silk Road Wine Trail Vayots Dzor, Armenia Գինու արահետը Մետաքսի ճանապարհին Yeghegis Goghtanik, Vardahovit and Agriculture diversification Hermon Վայոց Ձոր, Հայաստան English books AAV Categories Agriculture Education High Quality Handicraft Tourism Utilities (power and water) Aghnjadzor, Hors, Karaglukh, Salli, Taratumb Solar power banks Educational games Shatin English books Playground equipment Handicraft training Sports equipment Yelpin Pistachio Tree trial Rind Kindergarten toys Areni Agriculture diversification Old Areni Open Air Museum Khachik Village Music Hall, School Exhibition Hall, Library Gnishik, Mosrov Azatek, Por, Zedea http://originsdiscovery.com Tree planting Agriculture diversification Agriculture diversification 19 villages 1 AAV 2019 (Agriculture, Education, High Quality Handicraft, Tourism, Utilities (power and water) Place Project Sponsor Images / Notes Areni Community Areni Areni Open Air Cultural USD9,600 Purchase of land for the Open Museum Air Museum – Len Wicks Chinese Tourism Initiative Exploratory visit by a Chinese delegation to Vayots Dzor in November 2019 Areni Agriculture Diversification USD400 – seeds of different plant varieties and plants from Australia, Len Wicks – to be distributed as plants to villages in 2020 and thereafter in coordination with the Green Centre (Agricultural Training Centre) being established in Vayots Dzor Chiva, Rind, Agriculture (PAB Project) Carbon Credit Exchange (CTX), aligned Yelpin with UNFCCC Soil testing, project planning with the Greenlane Centre and IDEA Foundation 2 Mozrov, Stella Sarukhanyan’s Part of total USD2,860 – Samuel Seow Gnishik Agriculture project Singapore/Len Wicks (implemented by Greenlane NGO) Khachik Village Music Hall, USD2,000, USD1,500, USD2,500 – School Library, Ara Kassabian, New Zealand and also Exhibition Room the kind support of the Avedisian- Bablanians (Kuwait), Babikians (Sudan), and the Kassabian-Spendjians (USA) Khachik Tree planting USD2,000 – Ara Kassabian Completed 3 Rind Kindergarten toys USD100 – Talar Zambakchian, Thailand Shatin-Yeghegis Community Aghnjadzor, High Quality Handicraft USD1,000 – Australian NSW diaspora Karaglukh, Shatin, Taratumb 4 Aghnjadzor Solar panel power system USD350 – paid for by the Queensland Hors, Salli, diaspora, Aram and Sona Garabet Taratumb, Salli, Hors, English books, educational USD315 – Queensland Organisational Taratumb, games, sports balls Committee Aghnjadzor USD300 – supported by Ian Whitworth, Slovakia and Len Wicks Goghtanik, English books USD205 Queensland diaspora - Vardahovit Michael Dilanchian and Arbi Dalirian and Hermon Shatin Playground equipment USD5,000 Children of Armenia Fund Gayane Khachatryan 5 Yeghegis Agricultural project USD1,990 (AUD2,768) – training, etc. – Bishop and Panarmenian Fund (implemented by Greenlane NGO) Vayk Community Zedea, Stella Sarukhanyan’s Part of total USD2,860 (with Mozrov, Azatek, Por Agriculture project Gnishik) – Samuel Seow Law Corporation, Singapore/Len Wicks (implemented by Greenlane NGO) 6 .
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