Friday, October 24 2014

 Owing to the partnership between VivaCell-MTS and Fuller Center for Housing Armenia the current year has become prominent for eight families – has been solved their top priority  issue - the housing problem.

VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian, staff members from the company and Fuller Center for Housing Armenia team had a regular visit to Armavir region, the villages of Yervandashat and Margara sharing with five families their happiness.

Nine families from Armavir region, the villages of Yervandashat and Margara, will meet the winter without worries and concerns.

"Fatherland is a sacred idea, the purest of all the beliefs. It is the fundament upon which our identity relies on. Yet it is tangible as anything else around us. It's about soil cultivated by the farmer and the harvest that the land yields, it’s about village kids who live in harmony with the nature, it’s about strong families who pass their knowledge of land cultivation from generation to generation together with their love for the birthplace. Fatherland is the air that we breathe; it's the eyes of the young shepherd, clean as the spring water he drinks. Fatherland is the cumulative belief that each of us, nowadays Armenians, should hold: we are the means to pass this holy land inherited from our ancestors to our children. For preserving our Fatherland, we have to work a lot, day and night, sparing no effort. We have to build – and with each of the houses that we build, we rebuild our belief. No one else will do this for us," said VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian 

In the frames of this project 6 houses were renovated, 2 half-built houses completed and one house purchased in Armavir region.

"The least each of us can do for these people is to create basic housing conditions, safe roof and solid walls. For an Armenian the home is more than a place to live in and we try to do the possible to make more families live without the concern of living in comfortless conditions," said Ashot Yeghiazaryan, Fuller Center for Housing Armenia president.
VivaCell-MTS has invested 55 million AMD for the housing project in the borderland villages of Armenia and Fuller Center for Housing Armenia has undertaken the implementation of the project. 
VivaCell-MTS (K-Telecom CJSC) is Armenia's leading mobile operator, having the widest 2G/3.75G/4G network reach and spreading a wide range of Voice and Data services all across Armenia. Having the best of the Armenian people interest at heart since its launch on 1st July 2005 and in a short period of time VivaCell-MTS has managed to build a nationwide network and a considerable customer base. VivaCell-MTS drives innovation and aims at always being at the forefront of any development serving the Armenian mobile communications market.  The company follows the guidance provided by ISO 26000 (International Standard of Social Responsibility). 

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS") is the leading telecommunications group in Russia and the CIS, offering mobile and fixed voice, broadband, pay TV as well as content and entertainment services in one of the world's fastest growing regions. Including its subsidiaries, the Group services over 100 million mobile subscribers. The Group has been awarded GSM licenses in Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus, a region that boasts a total population of more than 200 million. Since June 2000, MTS' Level 3 ADRs have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol MBT). 

Fuller Center for Housing Armenia is a non-governmental, charitable organization that supports community development in the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh by assisting in building and renovating simple, decent and affordable homes, as well as advocating the right to a decent shelter as a matter of conscience and action. FCHA provides long-term, interest-free loans to low-income families. The monthly repayments flow into a Revolving Fund, which is used to help more families, thereby providing a financial foundation for sustainable community development. 
Since 2008 the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia has assisted 350 families.