Fundraising for Syria's endangered Armenian community organized by a pan-Armenian charity headquartered in Yerevan has gotten off to a slow start, with only about $50,000 in donations received so far.
In a move initiated by its board chairman, President Serzh Sarkisian, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund opened on August 10 a special bank account for financial assistance to Syrian Armenians increasingly suffering from the country's civil war.
A spokeswoman for Hayastan, Hasmik Grigorian, said on Monday that only two sums have been transferred to the account so far: 35,000 euros ($44,000) from Armenian-American businessman Hirair Hovnanian and $5,000 from the Armenian community in Lebanon.
Grigorian told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) that Hovnanian's donation has already been spent on summer holidays organized in Armenia for hundreds of Syrian Armenian schoolchildren.
Armenian News
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