Success Stories

Together We Can Do It

The Alaverdi Music School was constructed in 1945, and was last renovated 25 years ago. It is one of the oldest buildings in the city and its first music school. Due to the conditions of the school, classes have been arranged in two shifts. Apart from a general renovation of the entire building, the school also required a new heating system, as the school was heated using wood-stoves.
BRIDGE Public Works Program Helps Armenian Orphans Find Jobs

Since May 23, Sos Chitikian, Haik Simonian and Sergey Melkonian have been working for Nigol Abrahamian, a Canadian Armenian active in residential development. These three also share a common background; they are all orphans, having lived most of their lives at the Zatik orphanage.
SESA Takes Lead with Active Labor Market Measures

On October 14, 2008, through the support of the USAID Social Protection Systems Strengthening Project (SPSS), as well as other public and private partners, the State Employment Service Agency (SESA) of the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Issues (MLSI) held its 4th Job Fair – this time in Gyumri.
Armenians Turnout in Large Numbers to Vote Against Corruption

Over 1700 Armenians attended the NGO (non-governmental organization) Marketplace to support the fight against corruption. Held in the capital city of Yerevan, attendees helped select organizations to lead the charge by voting for their favorite NGO anti-corruption projects.
Improving Rural Healthcare Services

Community nurses are the first point of medical care for a large percentage of Armenia’s population, working from Health Posts that dot the country’s rural landscape. Health Posts service communities with limited access to the larger health centers and polyclinics that are staffed by primary care physicians and specialists.
PHCR Training Saves a Newborn’s Life

This lifesaving story began on October 5, when Varditer went on a routine afterbirth home visit to Anna Yaribekyan who had just returned from the maternity hospital with her newly born baby, Tatoul. The routine examination of the young mother showed that she was recovering successfully. However, the infant’s breathing pattern and tachycardia made Varditer grow fearfully anxious.
Improving the Quality of Life in Armenia’s Urban Communities

In December of 2008, Armenia Local Government Project Phase 3, through an additional infusion of funding from USAID for the co-financing of public service improvement equipment, delivered the last order of utility and garbage trucks to program communities. Of the 38 program communities, 27 seven communities identified solid waste collection as their highest problem and priority.
The First Armenia Water Resources Atlas Published

The Program for Institutional and Regulatory Strengthening of Water Management in Armenia has been assisting the Water Resources Management Agency (WRMA) of the Ministry of Nature Protection (MNP) in technical design and construction of the State Water Cadastre Information System (SWCIS) over the last four years.
Finding Your Way Through Crisis

While many claimed that Armenia would be unaffected by the economic crisis the devaluation of the dram and the loss of migrant employment opportunities abroad began to take their toll by fall of 2008. To raise media and public awareness about the impact of the global financial crisis on different facets of the Armenian economy and to help them identify and adopt new life strategies, CMSPA offered the following initiatives.
More Confidence in Performance

Alina Hovhannisyan, a community nurse in Haykavan—a rural community in Shirak Marz—was about to go to bed after her workday when she was rushed to Mariam Harutyunyan’s home. Mariam was in her late stage of pregnancy, but she had still two more weeks to go.

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