Armenia Fund Telethon Raises Over $11 Million

The Hayastan All-Armenia Fund raised $11,109,633 last week in its 2018 annual Thanksgiving Day Telethon. This money will be allocated towards two programs in Nagorno-Karabakh, which were launched last year. The first of these programs is the drilling of wells and creation of a drip irrigation system in Artsakh. The second program will target the application of solar energy (link not found on the organization’s website). In recent years the fund has partly financed, among other things, the construction of the Vartenis-Mardakert Highway, a second route connecting Artsakh to Armenia. The 116-kilometer-long road was inaugurated last year.