I am shooting this video for ABILITY Corps
from the COAF SMART Center where we
recently opened COAF Center, which was
opened on May 27th, just a month ago,
and this is COAF’s most recent initiative
for the development of rural areas.
Since it is COAF’s approach and we all
believe in it, that we are coming closer to
the villages and working within the villages
is how we can support and how we can
deliver the technology, the information,
and the new solutions that stay [for] these
people. Usually technology centers,
educational centers, training centers are
concentrated in bigger cities, bigger
towns, giving opportunities and chances
for the children there, but this is
unprecedented from that perspective,
that we have come as close to the villages
as possible to make sure the kids in the
villages can also take advantage of these
opportunities. COAF was established
in 2003, we started our activities in
Armenia then, and after working for more
than fourteen years with different types of
schools and kindergartens and communities
in all the areas of Armenia, we have decided
to create a center of our own which is
the SMART Center, to make sure that we
can implement all those types of programs
and activities which are needed and
necessary for addressing their needs in
the rural communities.