Pan-European Phoneathon raises €1.34 mln for Karabakh reconstruction

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s 17th annual Pan-European Phoneathon, held on November 16-20, raised 1.34 million euros in donations and pledges exceeding last year’s result by 1%.

The large-scale campaign mobilized the Armenian communities of France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Greece.

In the course of the four-day Phoneathon, around 700 volunteers called some 46,000 households, businesses, and organizations to request their support. This year’s phoneathon involved 1700 new donors.

Proceeds from the large-scale fundraising campaign will be used to rebuild Artsakh communities that have sustained heavy damage as a result of the four-day war this year, to support the continued growth of agricultural-development projects in Armenia’s Tavush Region, and to provide assistance to the Syrian-Armenian and Iraqi-Armenian communities.

Proceeds from the Greek affiliate will be contributed to the construction of the kindergarten, now underway, in Artsakh’s (Nagorno Karabakh) Karin Tak village.

The Hayastan Fund’s European affiliates will continue to accept donations and pledges till January 15, 2017.