AGBU PRESIDENT BERGE SETRAKIAN’S GLOBAL MESSAGE FOR APRIL 24TH AND 115TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGANIZATION
- 15 April 2021
For 115 years, AGBU has consistently responded to the needs of Armenians across the globe, while serving the Armenian homeland through both painful and promising times. We mark this significant milestone as it coincides this month with Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day, reminding the world of one of the darkest hours in the history of humankind...
AGBU 91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY GOES VIRTUAL DUE TO GLOBAL PANDEMIC
- 01 March 2021
On February 27, 2021, and for first time in its more than a century-old history, the biennial AGBU General Assembly broke tradition by taking its proceedings entirely online. Given the lingering presence of Covid-19, now in its second year and still persisting in hotspots across the globe, the AGBU Central Board agreed to harness the power of virtual technology to unite its worldwide membership remotely. Thanks to the expertise of the organization’s AGBU Armenian Virtual College (AVC), hundreds of participants from 32 countries were able to connect through Zoom with the benefit of simultaneous translation from English to Armenian, French and Spanish...
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AGBU LONDON TRUST ANNOUNCES NEW SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CLASSICAL ARMENIAN STUDIES AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY
- 22 January 2021
In keeping with its core commitment to advance Armenian education, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) London Trust recently made a substantial gift to support a scholarship programme for graduate students pursuing a master’s degree in Classical Armenian Studies at Oxford University. It is the leading university for Armenian studies in the UK and has pursued the subject since the mid-nineteenth century...
A LOOK BACK AT 2020
- 05 January 2021
My compatriots, both in Armenia and around the world, we are ending a year that has been dramatically different from any other in living memory. A century after the 1918 Spanish Flu, the world has lost nearly two million souls to the Covid-19 pandemic. For Lebanese-Armenians, 2020 saw the devastating Beirut Port Explosion and a collapse of confidence...
UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM FACILITATES AGBU SHIPMENT OF COVID-19 SUPPLIES AND RELIEF ITEMS TO ARMENIA
- 28 December 2020
As Armenian hospitals and care facilities work tirelessly to tend to those injured in the Artsakh War, the nation reached level four of coronavirus infection rates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With over 150,000 cases at the time, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), the world’s oldest and largest agency dedicated to ending hunger and humanitarian crises, offered the AGBU to coordinate the logistics of...
