BRITISH BUS TO ENCOURAGE SCHOOLCHILDREN TO HAVE POSITIVE
PARTICIPATION AND BEAR RESPONSIBILITY IN PUBLIC LIFE
03-05-2007 12:15:00 | | Social
YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. A project entitled the British
Bus was worked out on the initiative of the Embassy of Great
Britain to Armenia. The goal of the project is to encourage
schoolchildren in the issues of having positive participation in
the public life and undertaking responsibility in them. The
Embassy of Great Britain to Armenia envisaged to allocate about
7 mln drams (20.000 U.S. dollars) for implementation of the
programs of the initiative.
The official start of the British Bus project took place on
May 2, at Yerevan No114 school. Within the framework of the
program, the Yerevan Theater of Changes youth company performed
a 20-minute theatrical performance for schoolchildren in the
basis of which educational themes concerning cleanness of the
environment, protection of the users' rights, keeping own
hygiene, traffic rules and public services were put.
As Nazaret Seferian, the coordinator of the British Bus
project mentioned, the theatrical performances will be shown
till June 10 in Yerevan schools and yards, and in future, in the
case of financing, the performances will be shown in the marzes
of Armenia as well.