PRE-PROJECT REMARKS:
In September of 2018, we will be visiting three elementary schools with the goal of replenishing their chess supplies. These schools already have chess equipment, such as chess sets, chess clocks and vertical magnetic chess board (which is a large hanging chess board, that the teacher uses to teach the class), but they are either short or a few sets, or some of their sets need replacing (due to their old age).
We’ve chosen three schools, which teach grades 1 to 12 in their respective villages, they are Paravakar and Chinchin elementary schools in Tavush region and Kalavan elementary school in Gegharkunik region of Armenia. In May of 2018 Empower Armenia visited these schools and performed a site visit. During this time Empower Armenia delivered school supplies to Paravak and Chinchin elementary schools. You can see about this project here ‘2018 School Supplies’.
By bringing these supplies we are enabling more children to learn and practice chess, and to think critically, and logically under pressure.
For this project, donations are being raised for 10 chess sets and 2 chess clocks; with a project budget of $270 CAD. The transportation costs for this project has been accounted for in the ‘LED-fication’ project, which will be running parallel with this project for the same elementary schools. The following project ‘2018 Ping Pong Supplies’ will also be executed at the same time, and is related to these schools.
POST PROJECT REMARKS:
In September of 2018, we visited the three schools (Kalavan, Chinchin and Paravakar) as planned and delivered the school supplies. The Chess teachers were very happy that we were able to bring them new supplies.
For maps of Paravakar, Chinchin and Kalavan please see below.
