YEREVAN, MAY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. The 45 anniversary of creation of the U.S. Peace Corps is marked this year. The Corps has implemented its activity during the recent 13 years in Armenia as well. On this occasion, the U.S. Embassy organized on May 12 a visit to the marzes of Gavar and Tavush where journalists were given possibility to get acquainted with works of the Peace Corps at place. 25 years old Kim Spigelmire has voluntary worked at secontary school No7 of the city of Sevan already for 2 years. Within the framework of the health care education program of the community, he, jointly with his Armenian partner nurse Knkush Grigorian organizes courses addressed against AIDS, introduces methods of prevention of diseases to Armenian children, tells about consequences of smoking and using alcohol. With the volunteer's participation, a linguistic study for teaching English was created in school. 24-years old Tony Kim implements his voluntary activity in Dilijan, at the "Dilijan" children's anti-tubelcular health resort. As his Armenian partner, Director of the health resort Yevgenia Hovhannisian mentioned, Kim is engaged in entertaining children, holding computer and sports courses with. Due to the volunteer's efforts, the health resort got text-books, solved problems connected with restoration of the gym. According to the information of the Voluntary Corps Office, 482 volunteers have served in Armenia during the recent 13 years, and 80 volunteers work in the republic at present. The Peace Corps implements at present in Armenia 4 main programs: English language teaching, community and business development, community health care education, nature protectional education.

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