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Vanadzor Orran

Krikor and Anna Krikorian Center

Yearly Report For 2015

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This report includes work implemented from January to December 2015.

- General remarks

- Educational services

- Cultural events

- Social services

- Medical and psychological assistance

- Other

1. General Remarks

In 2015, 134 beneficiaries including children and elderly attended Orran. Children with

special needs are five. Children who have parents with special needs are 12.

Children under the care of a single mother are 41

Children under the care of a single father are 5

Child with no parent on both sides is 1.

Children who have lost one of the parents are 16

The chart below shows the numbers in more detail for each quarter.

I quarter II quarter III quarter IV quarter

Number of children 102 100 100 104

Number of elderly 26 29 30 30

Total number 126 129 130 134

The chart below reflects the changes in the number of beneficiaries this quarter.

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New admitted 2 1 12 7

Children leaving 1 3 13 3

New elderly

admitted 0 5 3 0

Elderly leaving 1 0 4 0

2. Educational Assistance to Children

2.1. Classrooms and Workshops

2.1.1 Classrooms

The children attend their daily classes to do their homework with the assistance of their

teacher and the volunteers. Subsequently, they are involved in the workshops, and other

activities.

The chart below shows the most recent number of children attending the workshops.

Number of children youngest middle

older

Number of children in

classrooms 31 36 36

Teachers Marietta

Soghoyan

Armine

Apresyan

Gayanne

Manoucharyan

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2.1.2 The Workshops

The chart below reflects the number of children attending the workshops in the last

quarter of the year.


Macramé 15 18 19 23

Wood 12 14 8 16

Ceramic 21 23 18 28

Art 12 11 9 15

Since October, the children are also taking dance lessons. The older students are taught

by Anahit Kirakosyan and the younger ones by Seda Grigoryan. There are 42 children in the

dance groups.

From the months of January to April some of the children were also included in a marching band.

The band was organized by the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese of Gougark for the purpose of

performing in the April 24 March.

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Twelve children of Orran are taking part in drama. The class is led by teacher Gayane

Manoucharyan who is assisted by actor, vocalist, producer Armen Nersisyan.

Twenty children took part in classes on the environment, a program funded by Hrair and

Anna Hovnanian Foundation. Their teacher was Susanna Avagyan.

In the months of July and August, the children also had art classes led by Gayane Grigoryan who

also teaches at the Children’s House. Ten children ages 10 to 16 took part.

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The chart below shows the number of children involved in the workshops.


Sewing 8 8 9 11

English 14 16 12 12

Drama - - 12 12

Math 12 14 12 15

Dance - - 15 42

Environment 20 20 - 20

Religion 29 30 28 31

Drums - marching

band

22 22 - -

French 4 4 - -

Wool work - - 10 -

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2.2 Volunteers

It is a beautiful tradition to have a number of volunteers at Orran helping the teachers and

children.

Peace Corps volunteer Whitney Doran was volunteering at Orran from January to August.

She was replaced by Boris Kiva Brook.

The students of UWC Dilijan international college have been coming to Orran to

volunteer. Thirteen to fifteen students were involved in the volunteer program for the first and

second quarters, 11 to 14 during the third and fourth quarters. Datev Ayvazyan was the

supervising administrator for the volunteers.


Number of volunteers 13 13 11 11

Hours worked 28 28 32 28

Total 116

The chart below reflects the hours worked by all the volunteers.


Number of volunteers 28 32 20 23

Hours worked 1561 1658 1398 1836

Total 6453

NAME/LAST NAME FROM WORK

1. Mane Lalayan Vanadzor Chemistry/biology

2. Lilit Nalbandyan Vanadzor English

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3. Karine Atoyan Vanadzor Math

4. Levon Vardoumyan Vanadzor Organizational

5. Anahit Kirakosyan Vanadzor Dance

6. Karine Marikyan Vanadzor Math

7. Datevik Galstyan Vanadzor Math

8. Armine Sargsyan Vanadzor Math

9. Alla Martirosyan Vanadzor English

10. Mariam Papyan Vanadzor English

11. Marin Movsisyan Vanadzor English

12. Boris Kiva Brook USA Computers

13. Ophelia Khoudaverdyan Vanadzor Biology

14. Mane gharibyan Vanadzor Biology

15. Gayanne Markosyan Vanadzor Russian language

16. Zaira Gasparyan Vanadzor Math

17. Vanessa Grigoryan Vanadzor Math

18. Arpine Mouradkhanyan Vanadzor Psychology

19. Gayanne Avagyan Vanadzor English/ceramics

20. Elmira Gevorkyan Vanadzor English/ceramics

21. Albina Garyan Vanadzor Religion studies

22. Anna Chobanyan Vanadzor Armenia language

23. Inna Sargsyan Vanadzor Math

24. Sveta Nasibyan Vanadzor Preparing homework

25. Seda Grigoryan Vanadzor Dance for youngest group

26 Whitney Doran USA English

27 Marine Sahakyan Vanadzor Sewing

28 Datev Nzloukhanyan Vanadzor Math

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29 Gevork Ganajyan Canada –

towards Hayq

French/English

30 Anna Varosyan Vanadzor Russian language

31 Lianna Mkhitaryan Vanadzor Russian language

32 Zian Zavaryan Vanadzor Armenian language

33 Narine Ghumashyan Vanadzor Social worker/teacher

34 Hermine Nahapetyan Vanadzor Preparation of homework

35 Melsik Matinyan Vanadzor Drum lessons

36 Gayane Grigoryan Vanadzor Wool work

3. Cultural Education

3.1. Events

We held over 50 events at Orran organized by the teachers, volunteers and students. Below

we present some of our events from January to December.

January 16 - Ter Nerses held a House and Water Blessing ceremony.

January 26 - 35 children were hosted at the Salute coffee house by proprietor Ani

Khatchaturyan.

January 28 - Orran children took part in the St. Sargis celebrations at the church yard

organized by the prelacy of Gougark.

January 30 - Edward Baghian and Koryun Sarikyan took part in a dueling competition held

in Yerevan. Edward took third place nationwide

February - The art works of ten children of Orran were exhibited at the New York art exhibit

for children ages 6 to 16 with the assistance of Peace Corp volunteer Whitney Doran.

March 14-16 - Three children emerged as winners in a competition called “Miracle”, The

prize is to take part in a youth conference in Aghveran.

March 16 -The middle group children watched the cartoon Anahit at the Lori entertainment

center.

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March 17 - Thirty children visited the Vanadzor puppet show. The tickets were gifted by the

Vanadzor Mayor’s office.

January to March - The General surgeon of the Medical Center in Vanadzor Gagik Hamparian,

and general facial surgeon Arthur Simonyan and anesthesiologist Ashot Papian examined all the

children. Thirty eight children were identified as a result of various problems, which have received

the appropriate free medical help, and 5 children had free eye surgery. The doctors also met with the

parents.

April 1-4 - Orran children took part in a four day seminar on setting and designing a holiday

table at the Fine Art Museum.

April 2-4 –The winners of the Miracle competition spent three days at Aghveran discussing

issues being faced by children with special needs. They came back and shared what they had learned

with the rest of the Orran children.

April 11 - The children of Orran celebrated Easter with the volunteers of UWC,

April 24- The middle and senior group children led the march in the March for the Genocide.

April 29- The children attended Flor Asoyan’s dance performance.

April 30-- The children of the older group presented From Centuries Aback to the Future

show dedicated to the Genocide.

May 19- Judy Doran held a discussion with children on issues faced by children with physical

disabilities.

May 31- The children watched a play called There Was and Was Not at the Dramatic

Theater of Vanadzor

June 1- The children took part in a number of activities on the day of Children’s Protection

first at the Stepan Zoryan museum, then at the Fine Arts, museum and finally at Orran.

June 6- All children were invited to a folk concert at the Aznavour Center

June 13- The youngest children took part in the Flower Festival at the Sayat Nova Park.

June 16- Thirty children who were taking classes on the environment visited the ATP in

Margarahovi.

June 19 – YMCA volunteers visited Orran and organized activities for them.

June 20- Peace Corp volunteers spend a day with the children as part of the Border to

Border program.

July 6- The YMCA volunteers visited Orran and taught the children how to make different

toys. They also organized games for them.

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July 10- The volunteers at Orran organized a discussion on Toward Hayq and presented a

film on Western Armenia.

July 14-Peter Abajian of PAROS visited Orran, learned of Orran’s work first hand and passed

out school bags to the children.

July 27- Tobacco and alcohol damages was the topic of a seminar for children delivered by

US Peace Corps volunteer Josephine Burns and Orran child Tigran Mkhitaryan, who had

participated in the week-long camp Pampak organized by Peace Corps.

August 30- ՛CEO of Kanaka Construction Company invited 15 children with their teachers to

his summer home by the Debet River for a picnic. Mr. Hoveyan had prepared gifts of school supplies

for the children.

September 8- Orran representatives were invited to UWC to present the work and

opportunities at Orran.

September 12- The middle and senior group children attended the film Louvre at the

Vanadzor Museum of Fine Arts. Subsequently they took a tour of the museum

September 18-19- Ernest Voskanyan , Yerevan Orran’s ceramic teacher was in Vanadzor

Orran for two days working with the children and elderly.

September 29- Armenian Caritas representatives Lusine Aghababyan and Ashot Aslanyan

organized a discussion on Regional War on trafficking and migration.

September 30- The children took part of activities organized by YMCA at the Vanadzor city

park.

October 1- Orran celebrated the Day of the Elderly. The students of school number 28

joined in with songs and dances

October 3- Six girls performed a dance number for the celebration of Vanadzor City Day.

Orran also received an award for taking part in the celebrations. The UWC volunteers took part as

well.

October 22- The children visited well known sculptor Sevo at his studio with the wood shop

teacher Ara Ghevondyan and learned about the artist’s work as well as the work of other artists.

October 23- The children met with actor Jivan Sargsyan and director of Zoryan museum

Lena Antaranyan at the museum.

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October 24- Orran was cleaned up as well as its surrounding area as the children took part in

the city wide clean up day

October 30- Thirty children were present at the Kzartyan music school to hear a conert

dedicated to Komitas.

November 4. The day of the worker was celebrated at Orran as the head of the Women and

Children Protection Department of Lori province Narek Sargsyan and other representatives visited

Orran. . They spent an hour with the groups, talked to the children. The meeting was covered by

Fortuna TV.

November 5- The Orran dance group won an award from the Lori region festival for their

dance performance at the “National Music, Song, Dance and Recitation” Festival.

November 14- The Orran children with the help of volunteers presented Armenia to the UWC

volunteers.

November 19-- “Kindness in Our Life” was a discussion held between the Orran children

and the visiting children of school number 23.

November 20 – The schools of number 20 and 19 visited Orran with goodies. They also put

on a small performance for the children.

December 10 – At the Lori Enterntainment Center the closing ceremony of Do Good was

held. Orran’s social worker handed certifitcates of appreciation to all those schools who had visited

Orran.

December 11- Kapan’s DOLL NGO young actors presented the Gulbenkian Foundation

sponsored “David of Sasun “puppet performance. The actors were mostly young people who have

disabilities,.

December 19- Orran and friends were at the Christmas Charity Fair, whose main goal was

aimed at protecting the interests of the children with disabilities. The Fair was attended by the

following NGOs: Sheen, Full Life, Crossroads, ARMENIAN CARITAS, Equal Rights and Equal

Opportunities and the Vanadzor orphanage. The fair opened with the blessing of the Lord by Ter

Stephen.

December 19- Orran decorated its Christmas tree with the help of guests.

December 26- The founder of Orran Armine K.Hovannisian and the volunteers of Yerevan

Orran came to celebrate Christmas with the children. They had brought food baskets, shoes and

clothing for the children and some of the other needy families of Vanadzor. The children in their turn

presented a show on Christmas. Taking part in the program were also “SMILE” characters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLo9FHBe_Xk

Fortuna TV featured the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLo9FHBe_Xk

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4. Social Services

Lusine Akmakchyan held meetings with 186 children and 202 parents. In case of need,

she has referred them to specialists. She also monitored the questionnaire given by Orran to 63

parents.

Ms. Akmakchyan addressed 21 social problems, 4 of which are still in progress. She has paid 85

home visits with the psychologist and the teachers.

Below are the numbers for the last quarter.


Number of children 102 100 100 104

Number of elderly 26 29 30 30

Work with Orran families 33 48 54 67

Visits to homes or relevant

institutions

21 homes

4 school

15 home

5 other

organizations.

12 home

8 school

37 home

11 school

Cooperation with other

governmental or non-

governmental organizations

9 11 16 28

Work with individuals who are

not Orran beneficiaries 23 18 11 15

Telephone calls 59 30 84 102

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5. Medical and Psychological Assistance

5.1 Medical

The Nurse has accomplished the following tasks

Preventive checkups of children.

Group and individual discussion on personal hygiene

Check children for lice and provide shampoo if needed.

Individual meetings with parents.

Was in touch with medical providers taking care of Orran children.

Review results of newly admitted beneficiaries

Monitor the cleanliness of kitchen

Prepared menu

In 2015, 17 seminars were conducted on health and personal hygiene in different age groups.

First aid was given to 112 people. Personal and family counseling was provided to 97 individuals.

Below are the services provided for the last quarter.

№ Work carried out How often/quantity

Beneficiaries

planned quantity

1 Check for cleanliness of building and

kitchen daily once -

2 Review list of beneficiaries daily once -

3 Checking food sample daily once -

4 Preparing and reviewing menu monthly once -

5 Monitoring UN food assistance daily once -

6 Home visits - - -

7 Cleaning once a month children

8 Keeping and updating records bimonthly once and more if

necessary children

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9 Examining for lice once a week once and more if

necessary children

10 First aid - 21 children

11 Purchase of first aid items monthly once children

12 Take blood pressure - - -

13 Visiting other medical providers

- - -

14

Discussion with parents

- 28

15

Letters, making appointments,

accompanying children to specialists

as necessary

children

16 Seminars on health issues

once a month in each group children

5.2 Psychological Services

Orran’s psychologist Vardan Ayvazyan conducted individual and group therapies for all the

children. Work was also done with the parents. When needed referral were made to other

professionals outside of Orran. Sessions were also conducted with the staff and volunteers.

The chart below reflects work completed.

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Individuals 18 21 37 41 5 11 4 13 5 11 4 13

2.Work in groups 35 41 48 57 8 6 10 10 4 2 4 5

3. Keeping records 18 23 58 73 - - - - - - - -

4. Psychological

assessment 8 11 6 18 - 2 1 - - 2 1 -

5. Work with family - - - - 18 12 8 30 18 12 8 30

6. Team and staff

meetings 3 5 4 4 - - - - - - - -

7. Work with

volunteers 11 8 6 7 - -- - - - - - -

8. Cultural activities - 3 1 2 - - - - - - - -

9. Visits, seminars,

outside meetings 2 3 2 5 - - - - 2 3 2 5

10. Visit families - - - 21 15 12 14 - - -

6. Other

A full staff meeting has been held every ten days.

Once a month a parents meeting was held to address any pending problems and answer

questions

The social worker and a few volunteers took part in a seminar called civic society and

social cooperation.

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Orran took part in a meeting with the Ambassador of the European Union where future

developments within the region were discussed.

Working with Mission Armenia, an Orran child with physical disabilities learned the

skills of hair dressing and is currently working at home.

Forty Orran children took part in camp with various organizations.

Ten children were hosted by Sister Arousiag in Tsaghkatzor.

Four children attended Tumo summer camp.

Five children took part in Junior Achievement of Armenia’s summer camp.

Fifteen children were at Gugark camp

In Stepanavan, five children were at the Full Lif’s summer camp.

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