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EDUCATIONAL RESTRUCTURING Context : One of the main problem in Armenia is to give the Armenian people the possibility to work. The government has created one hundred universities since the independance of the country, but 68% of the students are unemployed today. We are about to create a professional training school, in Koghb, in collaboration with the local authorities, the mayor of the village, a very active person, who garanties to take on the functioning expenses of this future school. In 2009, we have already rehabilitated one of the village schools, in order to allow all the children to get decent education. All the programme 2010 is therefore located in the North of Armenia, 20 km from the Georgian frontiere, a region forgotten by the Armenian government. Concerning sponsoring, many young people are now entering universities, thanks to the support given over the last years by Mission Enfance's sponsors. Our team of 6 people works in Erevan, the capital, in our French speaking game library, as in the rest of Armenia by handing out each year, over 2.000 school kits to the most isolated schools, by equiping orphanages or hospital with game libraries and by rehabilitating the school buildings of the country Coordination : Our projects are coordinated with the Department of Education and the of Social Affairs. Among others, the choice of the schools to rehabilitate is decided with local authorities in order to make sure that this investment will have in return a reinforcement of the teachers and state means to perpetuate our effort. Each of our project is carried out directly by our local team. Distribution of school kits is done personnaly, the equipment of game libraries and rehabilitations of school buildings in Karabagh and in Armenia are carried out under the management of our logistician in coordination with the villagers. Control : A monthly report (financial and activity) is sent to the head office. A control mission takes place once a year. Finally, the local team is formed of people with 17 years experience (a coordinator, a logistician, a youth leader and two teachers).   Our Projects in 2010 Bring a school support to aid wise forgotten children Functioning of the game library of Yerevan and French lessons (100 children)     Sponsoring of 138 children in Gumri - Endanik school and Boghossian Centre     Distribution of school kits (2.000 children)     Rehabilitation of a school + equipment of nursery class in Armenia - Koghb     Construction of a professional training centre in Koghb     Equipment in furniture (benches, tables...) for 120 pupils of Koghb school     Equipment in material to the professional centres (Endanik)     Sending of a teacher to Boghossian Centre (3 months) Total Budget needed in 2010 : 194.353 € Beneficiaries : 3.000   School of Koghb, rehabilitated in 2009 Rehabilitation works... Classroom before... After... Inauguration of the Koghb School Pupils come back to their new school classroom... Levon Gasparian, coordinator Raffi Kamayan, and Arminée Kamayan, youth leader logistician A school awaiting rehabilitation... after rehabilitation   In Armenia, country subject to cold, darkness and an embargo from its neighbours, the needs are immense. After having started in this country with an emergency mission in 1993, Mission Enfance's action was orientated towards the rehabilitation of school buildings, the distribution of school kits - 2.000 a year - and the support, thanks to sponsors, of two educational centres in the town of Gyumri (destroyed at 80 % during the 1988 earthquake). Our French-speaking game and toy library, forms and animates the underprivileged children of the city.   At the Endanik Centre, supported by Mission Enfance, children receive professional and artistic training.   The children of the Boghossian Centre are getting ready to be responsible adults with a solid education in a caring moral and intellectual environment.   [Photo album] - [Action carried out since 1993] [Back to our intervention]