Armenia Tree Project accepted an invitation on March 11 to visit the AGBU Manoogian-Demirdjian School in Canoga Park, where a large group of students donated one dollar per week for four weeks to sponsor the planting of 55 trees in Armenia.
Jeff Masarjian and Anahit Gharibyan presented ATP’s Building Bridges environmental education program to a group of 300 enthusiastic students from kindergarten through fifth grade. The visit was coordinated by the school’s Armenian teachers, and the donation to ATP was proudly presented by Principal Hagop Hagopian.
“For the school’s 35th anniversary, the Elementary Armenian Department wanted to ‘Give something to our Homeland.’ Since we knew about ATP, we decided to help turn Armenia green,” explained Armenian teacher Maral Voskian.
“The students were happy that they were going to plant trees. Meanwhile they also learned something new about their Homeland since we conducted lessons about the importance of saving Armenia’s flora and fauna by using ATP’s Building Bridges newsletter,” she added.
“We are grateful for this tree planting donation and extremely proud of the initiative taken by the young students at the Manoogian-Demirdjian School. We look forward to working together to raise awareness among the youth about environmental issues in Armenia,” stated Mr. Masarjian. The school visit was part of ATP’s Building Bridges program, which was designed to connect diasporan students with Armenia’s rich natural heritage.
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