“Everybody knows that I sell ecologically clean product - tomato, cucumber, eggplant, squash, broccoli, beans and green pepper. I don’t even take it to the market. The villagers themselves come to me to buy vegetables. I thank them, and they thank me…” Communities involved in the project are 80 percent resided by refugees from Azerbaijan. “If this project was initiated some 20 years ago, many families would not leave the village,” Khachik says. “Many of those who settled in the village had fled from urban areas like Baku and Kirovabad, and did not have a clue about gardening. So they preferred to leave the village, and the land remained devastated.” Project participants underwent training in Yerevan and their communities where they practiced their new skills and knowledge on every shrub and plant in the garden. Save the Children performed this work in partnership with the HDP Foundation. “Committed to creating lasting change for children, Save the Children remains faithful to its mission through this project as well. By helping vulnerable families increase family income, we help children live in economically viable families and get healthy food which is an important precondition for being healthy, educated and protected,” says Irina Saghoyan, Director of Save the Children’s Armenian Representative Office.
“Everybody knows that I sell ecologically clean product - tomato, cucumber, eggplant, squash, broccoli, beans and green pepper. I don’t even take it to the market. The villagers themselves come to me to buy vegetables. I thank them, and they thank me…” Communities involved in the project are 80 percent resided by refugees from Azerbaijan. “If this project was initiated some 20 years ago, many families would not leave the village,” Khachik says. “Many of those who settled in the village had fled from urban areas like Baku and Kirovabad, and did not have a clue about gardening. So they preferred to leave the village, and the land remained devastated.” Project participants underwent training in Yerevan and their communities where they practiced their new skills and knowledge on every shrub and plant in the garden. Save the Children performed this work in partnership with the HDP Foundation. “Committed to creating lasting change for children, Save the Children remains faithful to its mission through this project as well. By helping vulnerable families increase family income, we help children live in economically viable families and get healthy food which is an important precondition for being healthy, educated and protected,” says Irina Saghoyan, Director of Save the Children’s Armenian Representative Office.
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