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Projects - Hygiene Upgrade Initiative
Ensuring safe & clean public facilities
Armenia currently lags in terms
of public hygiene: everything from public toilets and fly screens to soap and
sterilization methods are ignored as a result of degradation from Soviet and post-Soviet
living standards.
The Hygiene Upgrade Initiative seeks to ensure safe
and clean public facilities in Armenia and Karabagh and was created in response
to the reactions of visitors appalled by the lack of general hygienic conditions.
The idea behind the program is to begin implementing world-class hygiene standards
throughout Armenia and Karabagh. Armenia Fund USA, in conjunction with the Hayastan
All-Armenian Fund offices in Yerevan, will begin by implementing hygiene measures
in hospitals in Yerevan. Eventually, the program will be expanded to include museums,
universities, concert halls and various public facilities.
Armenia Fund
USA that although rebuilding roads, schools and hospitals is of paramount importance,
it is equally important to make a positive impact on people’s daily living standards.
The Public Hygiene Project is a first step in this direction.
Thanks to
Mr. Hagop Giritlian’s generous donation of $150,000, the Hygiene Upgrade Initiative
will launch its first undertaking at the Children’s Division of Yerevan’s hospital
#3.
A better life is at times achieved by small, incremental changes.
The Hygiene Upgrade Initiative is a means of insuring insulated hospital rooms,
running water, and sanitization in Armenia’s public facilities.
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