Packs on Backs Armenia: Debi Arach 2022
Description
The Packs on Backs initiative, was started by the The Heros Humanitarian Foundation (HHF), a former Los Angeles based non-profit organization that supported children in need and their educational advancement. HHF partnered with The Paros Foundation to bring their Packs on Backs initiative to Armenia, and together successfully distributed 380 backpacks and school supplies to children in Gyumri and Vanadzor in the summer of 2015 and 225 backpacks to the children at the Kharpert Children’s Home in the summer of 2016. Since then, the Packs on Backs initiative continues to impact the lives of children in need in Armenia with this essential need.
Our next distribution will be for the kids attending the Debi Arach Children’s Center in Gyumri. Socially vulnerable children attend the center after their school and receive both humanitarian and educational support through a holistic approach. The Paros Foundation established the Debi Arach Children’s Center on April 15, 2015 and has since provided children each week the necessary academic, psychological, social and humanitarian support they need to succeed. Gyumri’s devastating history has left more than 100,000 residents homeless, and plagued with unemployment and rampant poverty. These families often struggle to provide their children with life’s basic necessities; therefore making backpacks and school supplies a distant priority. Children at the center were recipients of backpacks and school supplies during our first distribution in 2015. This distribution will meet the ongoing needs of both current and new children. Our goal is to provide 30 new attendees with new backpacks and school supplies and replenish the school supplies for 180 children who already have backpacks. A donation of $30 will help obtain one backpack filled with supplies for one child. School supplies will be grade appropriate and include a combination of pencils, pens, pencil cases, notebooks, folders, erasers, sharpeners, glue, scissors, rulers, highlighters, and crayons. In-kind donations of the items listed are also welcomed.
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Thank you to all our donors, we have met our fundraising goal.
The Need
It is very difficult for a child to learn and excel in their studies without a proper backpack and essential school supplies. In addition, without the proper supplies these children are less likely to attend school on a regular basis, hence severely hindering their educational growth and minimizing future opportunities.
Short Term Impact
A total of 180 children from Gyumri’s poverty stricken communities attending the Debi Arach Children’s Center will receive either proper backpacks and school supplies or new school supplies to aid in their educational advancement. Local school supplies will be purchased whenever economically feasible in turn boosting the local economy.
Long Term Impact
Your donation to sponsor the Packs on Backs Armenia: Debi Arach project will be recognized on The Paros Foundation website and in appropriate press related to this important project.
Sponsors Benefits
All sponsors of this important project will be listed on The Paros Foundation’s website and in all press related to this project. Visits to these communities can be arranged for sponsors visiting Armenia.
Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
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Glendale, CA July 29, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA July 29, 2022Mr. Vahe Ghevandian
United States June 29, 2022Mr. Mher Mekertichyan
United States June 29, 2022Ms. Tatevik Torossian
United States June 27, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA September 22, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA September 21, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA September 8, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA September 7, 2022Mrs. Louise Bedrosian
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA August 30, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA August 25, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA August 19, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA July 29, 2022Mr. Samuel Khatchadourian
Glendale, CA July 29, 2022Mr. Vahe Ghevandian
United States June 29, 2022Mr. Mher Mekertichyan
United States June 29, 2022Ms. Tatevik Torossian
United States June 27, 2022Ms. Nina Yousefian
Huntington Beach, CAIn Memory Of Virginia and Bill Hacopian June 25, 2022
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United States June 25, 2022Ms. Lusik Kvryan
CA, United States June 25, 2022Anonymous
Glendale, CA June 24, 2022Ms. Seda Tadevosyan
Tujunga, CA June 24, 2022Ms. Sylvia Baghdasarian
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Canada September 13, 2020Ms. Rita Yepremian
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