"ART FOR EVERYONE" EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM WAS HELD FOR "SOS KIDS VILLAGE"

Starting from June 10th, 2017 "SOS Children's village" (Kotayk region) beneficiary 36 kids (from 6 to 16 years old) participated in the educational project programs "Art for All".
 
Such interesting and intellectual programs as "Puzzle, Form, Description", "My House My Fortress", "Types of Genres, Arts, Technique" "Guess a pattern" were held for kids (each group took part in two programs).
 
“Rostelecom” in Armenia and Museum of Russian Art have been implementing this project since the end of 2016.  
 
The project involves pupils from care centers and orphanages, children with special needs as well as other groups.   
 
The educational program was developed as a result of collaboration between the specialists of the museum, guide-teachers, psychologists and art critics of the Museum of the Russian art, having a goal to make the art more interactive and accessible for children.
 
When launching the program "Rostelecom" in Armenia CEO Hayk Faramazyan remarked that children should get education on comprehending arts since their early age, while companies must support such programs making them accessible for every child.
 
Guided by the international experience of informal educational activities of museums, specialists of preschool children and school children implement the main four educational projects aimed at developing attention, logical thinking, visual memory and enriching vocabulary, as well as increasing knowledge of the visual arts, perception of beauty and sense aesthetics.
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"SOS Children's villages" is an Armenian charity organization with the mission to provide care to children deprived of parental protection, as well as support children in difficult life situations.
 
The organization was founded in 1989 in response to the destructive earthquake of December, 1988.

"SOS Children's village" in Kotayk region opened its doors in 1990 for children who lost their parents because of the earthquake.

"SOS Children's village" was the first of its kind in the former Soviet Union.

"SOS children's park" founded in 1994 was designed to provide high quality preschool education for children from SOS families and neighboring communities ․

In 2001 the first Youth home opened in Yerevan, later in 2009 the second "SOS Children's village" in Armenia was opened in the city of Ijevan.
 
Currently, the activities of "SOS Children’s Village" include services of community care for children and family strengthening activities, as well as a wide range of educational programs, meantime pursuing improvement of the child protection system in Armenia through implementation of the protection benefits of the national programs.

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Russian art Museum of Yerevan (collection of Professor A. Abrahamyan) (address - Isahakyan 38, near Cascade) operates in the capital for about 30 years.
 
Russian fine art exposition is covering the end of the 19th century and early 20th century and has a world importance and carries great artistic and historical value.
 
The training programs developed by the staff of the museum differ and are based on international educational experience and the projects "My House is My Fortress", group programs "Puzzle, Form, Description", "My House My Fortress", "Types of Genres, Arts, Technics", "Guess the pattern", "Zoo", "The seasons", held from March 2015 triggered great interest: each month the Museum host's about 350 schoolchildren and preschool children.
 
The Museum features works by such artists as K. Korovin, V. Serov, M. Vrubel, M. Nesterov, A. Benoua, Z. Serebryakova, B. Kustodiev, A. Golovin, E. Lansere, M. Voloshin, K. Petrov - Vodnik, N. Roerich, R. Falk, P. Konchalovsky, M. Saryan, P. Kuznetsov, A. Lentulov, S. Sudeikin, A. Tischler, etc.
 
Yerevan Museum of Russian art (collection of Professor A. Abrahamyan) was founded by Professor Aram Abrahamian based on his private collection and was dedicated to his historic homeland of Armenia as a great expression of patriotism.