With the aim of empowering Armenian women, AGBU Armenia, together with Fruitful Armenia Charity Foundation, is taking its Women Entrepreneurs project to women in Artsakh. The entrepreneurship course developed together with the American University of Armenia’ Extension program looks to boost women’s entrepreneurial skills and teach them how to apply those in the world of business. 

The announcement is available in Armenian here.

 

The first audio-book was recorded in the noise of warring Aleppo. It was later when the project initiators from the remote shores of America heard the echos of horrible shootings in the lines of Raffi’s “Jallaledine”. The audiobook was narrated by Margarit Shamlyan directed by Berjouhy Avedian, and produced by Hagop Tovmassian who built the recording studio from the scratch with whatever materials available during the ruins of the war. “The sound of war in the background of the raw recordings was horrifying, however, for the recording...

 

 

On April 13, 2019, Anna Hakobyan, founder and leader of two new charitable foundations in Armenia and spouse of Armenia’s Prime Minister, was the guest of honor at a luncheon with Armenian-American women in New York City organized by AGBU. Her visit to New York was the last stop of her 17-day U.S. tour, the main goal of which was to raise awareness for My Step...

 

 

AGBU Armenia, together with Fruitful Armenia Charity Foundation, is taking its Women Entrepreneurs project to women in Artsakh. The project, implemented in the framework of the AGBU Women Empowerment program launched in Armenia in 2017, looks to boost women’s entrepreneurial skills and teach them how to apply those in the world of business. For a country to develop properly, you must invest in different sectors of its economy to stimulate economic activity. The establishment of enterprises, the creation of new jobs...

 

 

Opera singer, soprano, RA People’s Artist Hasmik Papyan has won in the category of Woman of the Year at the Armenian PR Awards. She was in Armenia at the time for a charity concert and, availing of the opportunity, Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Armenia President and member of the AGBU Central Board of Directors Vasken Yacoubian and the President of the Armenian PR Association, associate professor of the YSU Faculty of Journalism, PhD candidate Astghik Avetisyan invited Hasmik Papyan to AGBU headquarters in Yerevan and handed her the award...