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I am shooting this video for ABILITY Corps

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from the COAF SMART Center where we

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recently opened COAF Center, which was

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opened on May 27th, just a month ago,

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and this is COAF’s most recent initiative

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for the development of rural areas.

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Since it is COAF’s approach and we all

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believe in it, that we are 
coming closer to

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the villages and working 
within the villages

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is how we can support and how we can

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deliver the technology, the information,

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and the new solutions 
that stay [for] these

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people. Usually technology centers,

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educational centers, training centers are

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concentrated in bigger cities, bigger

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towns, giving opportunities and chances

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for the children there, but this is

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unprecedented from that perspective,

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that we have come as close to the villages

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as possible to make sure the kids in the

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villages can also take advantage of these

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opportunities. COAF was established

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in 2003, we started our activities in

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Armenia then, and after working for more

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than fourteen years with 
different types of

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schools and kindergartens and communities

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in all the areas of Armenia,
we have decided

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to create a center of our own which is

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the SMART Center, to make sure that we

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can implement all those types of programs

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and activities which are needed and

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necessary for addressing their needs in

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the rural communities.