2008 Woodie Awards
Serving poor in Armenia gives drink to the thirsty
Norair Miller '07
Issue date: 12/8/06 Section: Features
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This summer, my family and I traveled eleven hours by plane to visit a small village in the Republic of Nagorno Kharapagh. This country is located southeast of Armenia and is surrounded by Azerbaijan. My family funded a humanitarian project in Kharapagh that consisted of building an indoor water system, which would allow running water to be available to all the houses in the community of Nor Kherdashen. For years, the inhabitants of this village had to travel for miles, usually by foot through many fields to reach the streams where they would be able to fill up a bucket with water to use for bathing, cooking, and washing their belongings.
In order for us to be able to help with this project, we worked with the humanitarian group Armenia Fund, an organization whose goal is to find individuals willing to make a contribution and help fund projects for the Armenian people living in that area of the world. We performed our project is in Nor Kerdashen. The individuals living there are those people who have been robbed of their ancestral lands for many years.
For the past ten years, these people have fought to regain their lands, which play a great role in the history of Armenians. Today, we are very grateful to them and wanted to find a way to give back to that community for all their hard work. When Armenia Fund contacted us, we agreed without hesitation to be a part a project that would help rebuild this area and bring some comfort to the inhabitants. One of the first steps to help create a productive living environment for the villagers was to give them one of the greatest natural resources: water.
This summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Armenia and drive nine hours through mountainous terrains to this small town in Kharapagh. When we arrived, the entire town, which consisted of about 40 families, surrounded us as if we had made all of their prayers come true. It was very emotional to see all the villagers and their children touched and thankful for our good works. Something such as making running water available 24/7 in their homes seems as very minor to us, but for these people, running water was something they could only imagine.
In order for us to be able to help with this project, we worked with the humanitarian group Armenia Fund, an organization whose goal is to find individuals willing to make a contribution and help fund projects for the Armenian people living in that area of the world. We performed our project is in Nor Kerdashen. The individuals living there are those people who have been robbed of their ancestral lands for many years.
For the past ten years, these people have fought to regain their lands, which play a great role in the history of Armenians. Today, we are very grateful to them and wanted to find a way to give back to that community for all their hard work. When Armenia Fund contacted us, we agreed without hesitation to be a part a project that would help rebuild this area and bring some comfort to the inhabitants. One of the first steps to help create a productive living environment for the villagers was to give them one of the greatest natural resources: water.
This summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Armenia and drive nine hours through mountainous terrains to this small town in Kharapagh. When we arrived, the entire town, which consisted of about 40 families, surrounded us as if we had made all of their prayers come true. It was very emotional to see all the villagers and their children touched and thankful for our good works. Something such as making running water available 24/7 in their homes seems as very minor to us, but for these people, running water was something they could only imagine.
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