Monthly Newsletter February 2017
MYRADOON
This month 4 abused and neglected women found shelter in Myradoon, with their innocent children. At the end of February,we already had 18 girls and 25 children living in the shelter.
We celebrated Armenian traditional “Trndez” with our residents!
Ter Partev did a short ceremony in our church chapel and explained Trndez’s meaning. Then we gathered around the fire, sang some religious songs and started jumping over the fire. The festive mood was continued around the table.
Thank God for His abundant blessings!!!
ALCF continues its “Light of Hope” program. We distribute necessary items to families in need.
As always, this month as well, we received a lot of letters of requests from individuals who were in dire need of humanitarian assistance.We gave aid to 60 and more families.
The staff went to Taronik and Margara villages in Armavir province. Both villages were close to Turkey’s border and we visited the villages with special military permit. The villagers were very surprised and delighted that we paid attention to their needs and ditributed them bags of clothing, shoes, toys and other necessary items.
We give special attention to the of Syrian refugees and their problems ,we do our best to give a helping hand to all the Syrians.
We visit different maternity hospitals and surprise mothers with presents(newborn clothing, blankets and pampers) for their newborns. This month we gave more than 155 packages to the newborns.
NEWS & EVENTS
- From December 6th up to January 6 we joined UCOM corporation in the campaign of helping more underprivileged people in Armenia and Artsakh. On the 18th of February their representatives came to our center with a clown to entertain the children, expressing their gratitude to our residents who worked and sewed day and night big and small bags, door stops, aprons and Christmas stockings ,we donated them to their boutique in Northern avenue.Our little residents had lots of fun and played amazing games with each other. They really enjoyed their day!
- Our founder/executive director Mrs. Seta Ghazarian was invited to St Gregory church of Pasadena, (Men’s Forum) to speak about domestic violence in Armenia and present our foundation’s work there.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS WORK. PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS WITH THE UNFORTUNATE….
We are an open Shelter, Please come and visit our facility.
Make your donations to where it counts, and make a difference in the lives of ourresidents…
ALCF P.O. Box 3595 Seal Beach, California 90740
USA Ph # 562.598.8025
Armenia ph# 374-93-32-78-34, 374-43-500-503
Address in Armenia: Armavir Marz, Ptghunk Village, Vartanatz 1
www.armenianlighthouse.org E-mail: armenianlighthouse@gmail.com
