Monday, August 08, 2005

There is a new newssite in Armenia at armenia.indymedia.org. According to the website, Indymedia is a "network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues" with many different sites dedicated to bringing news from many different places in the world. The Armenian site just started and at the time of writing there are only three articles posted (one of them about something that happened a year ago) and not all the links are working yet, so we'll have to see how it will develop.

On another note, I am working on several different small projects with different people now, both in Yerevan and in Spitak. One way or another all the projects are connected to health care. I don't have a health care related education and it was never really a special interest of mine, but somehow health care seems to be a red thread running through my life since I came to Armenia. I am enthousiastic about all the projects, though, and will hopefully be able to tell you more about them in the future.

5 Comments:

Blogger Myrthe said...

Onnik over at One World has more on the Indymedia-project here.

10:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good to see you noticed indymedia Armenia! We’re working hard on the website at the moment, to get everything up and running, and all the links working :-).
Please allow me to stress the fact that we rely on articles written by every-one who feels like it, so if there is something on your chest, don’t hesitate to post an article on http://armenia.indymedia.org

7:51 AM  
Blogger Myrthe said...

I hope the project will be a success. I for one am keeping an eye on the site! Good luck to those who are working on it!

12:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi there! Regarding your "red thread". I happen to have an education in Health, Public Health, specifically, and am travelling to Yerevan for a year in about a month. I would be very interested in getting some idea about the cost of living there. Do you think you might be able to put me in contact with anyone? Well done on the work you are doing, by the way. I'll be spending my entire life savings in the next year doing research... my gift to an amazing people. Hope to hear from you. Anyone feel free to write: fortunatelyblue@yahoo.com

3:53 PM  
Blogger Raffi K. said...

Here is some info about living in Armenia:

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Live_in_Armenia

8:41 PM  

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