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News - Ororotz Release
April 9, 2003
Armenia Fund USA announces Ororotz - Cradle Project.
National initiative to assist 5000 of Armenia's neediest families with theirnewborns.
New York, NY– Armenia Fund USA has launched Ororotz (Cradle), a new initiative
aimed at providing Armenia’s neediest families with pediatric care, medical and
nutritional supplies, as well as an awareness program to assist newborns in their
critical first year of life.
According to Armenia’s Ministry of Social
Security, Ministry of Health, and various Armenia-based NGOs, there are currently
an estimated 5000 families with children under the age of one, living in conditions
of extreme poverty, with little or no access to proper medical care or basics
such as proper clothing and supplies.
All babies are entitled to life.
But in Armenia’s remote villages and towns, places left behind in the push to
renew the Armenian nation, over 5000 of the littlest ones fall behind every year,
in the most critical stage of their development. Ororotz is designed to address
this: It will help bring infant care in Armenia up to modern standard, encourage
proper first-year development, prevent malnutrition, and help keep families together
and babies out of orphanages.
Ororotz is essentially an accelerated program
focused on promoting healthy childhood development throughout Armenia. It will
ensure that Armenia’s most needy babies survive their first year of life and gain
a solid foundation. The program includes proper prenatal care for mothers along
with child care education in local clinics, hospitals, and community institutions.
Families enrolled in the program will receive free inoculations for their babies,
four pediatric visits per year, and quarterly deliveries of Ororotz “Survival
Kits”. These four Survival Kits are designed for the four maturation stages of
the first year. The kits will include essentials from baby powder, vitamins, bed
linens and bottles to hygiene products, blankets and baby clothing.
Funding
a full year of an infant’s essential needs through 4 quarterly Survival Kits costs
$150. $1200 will fund Survival Kits for 8 infants, for one year. The total cost
of the Ororotz Project is $860,000 per year and is projected to go on for 5 years.
By giving Armenia’s neediest newborns a strong start in life, the Ororotz project
is investing in their potential to teach, build, invent, inspire, heal, transform
and lead their nation into a better future.
Armenia FundUSA is dedicated
to investing in vital, self-sustaining initiatives in both Armenia and Karabagh,
ranging from large-scale infrastructure projects such as the North-South and Goris-Stepanakert
highways, and national humanitarian endeavors such as the Ororotz Cradle Project.
Founded in 1992, Armenia Fund USA is part of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, the
first international, non-governmental, non-profit, non-political network representing
all constituents in the Armenian Diaspora. Armenia Fund USA is dedicated to upholding
transparent procurement policies and supervising quality control, ensuring that
all funding dollars make it in to the right hands, every step of the way.
For more information on the Ororotz Cradle Project and how you can help, please
call us at (212) 689-5307, or email us at
[email protected].
Armenia FundUSA is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.
Contributions are 100% tax deductible.
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