Caucasus
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Armenia: Two best friends making a living
Vardanyan Vatche 17 years old and Arthur Simonyan 18 years old, are best friends. They have many things in common: They both come from economically deprived families, they are the […]
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Armenia: Education for Children with Disabilities
In Armenia it is common for children with disabilities of pre-school age not to attend kindergarten or any educational institution. First of all, their parents feel stressed to take them […]
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Civic Development Institute Develops National Model for Basic Literacy, Numeracy and Life skills for deprived children in Georgia and Azerbaijan
Civic Development Institute prepared a new book “ Literacy, Numeracy and Life Skills Guide for Primary Teachers”. The goal of this book is to popularize the Second Chance Education Model […]
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Georgia: No Child Left Behind Program
(National Model for Basic Literacy, Numeracy and Life skills for deprived children in Georgia and Azerbaijan) On 2-5 September, 20011 the first international meeting was held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Georgian […]
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Caucasus: Summer Camp Prompts Intercultural Cooperation
Cross Border Intercultural Cooperation in the Caucasus At a beautiful resort complete with sandy beaches and a scenic forest, 30 students of 12-19 years of age attended the international summer […]
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Youth debate competition fosters critical thinking and flexible learning
On May 30, the Open Society Foundations – Armenia organized a youth debate competition in Yerevan as part of the Armenia Debate Program. Six debate clubs participated, hailing from Yerevan […]
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Georgia: How to Paint an Enemy
On 8 and 9 February, Georgia’s Ministry of Education and Science held a nationwide contest for students of all ages. The competition, “Russian Aggression Through My Eyes,” invited students up […]
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Georgia: Class Struggle
This is the third in a series of multimedia reports on villages and urban districts in Georgia where Azeris and Armenians co-exist. You can learn more about this project and […]
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Georgia: Whose Facts?
NINOTSMINDA, Georgia | For the second year in a row, teachers in an Armenian school in Ninotsminda, a town just inside the Georgian border, have faced the school year with […]
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Armenia: School for Scandal
YEREVAN | In what is still a conservative and hidebound country, Mariam Sukhudyan hardly comes across as typical. The smell of incense wafts across her family’s modest apartment in the […]
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