Vanessa Kachadurian Charity, Focus on Children of Armenia

This exceptional fund supports the education at economically strapped youth of Armenia.  Parents are forced to migrate to Russia for work and have used the orphanages as a place to feed, cloth, educate their children.  This has created a generation of children that are considered "social orphans" NOT available for adoption the social orphans account for 99% of the children in orphanages in Armenia.

This fund was established by social workers in Armenia, that want to build the education of the next generation to be economically equipped to start industry and businesses.  "Knowledge is power" we want to empower the children to have the right to build their country and eliminate orphanages all together.   The orphanages get government funding and donations, unfortunately the money does nothing to improve their social life but rather keep their standard of living in orphanages. 

vanessa Kachadurian charity

Vatche Soghomonian one of the "Ararat 10" that climbed Mt. Ararat 3 years ago and put up a flag of Armenia and Nargno Karabagh rides a bike through Armenia every year raising money for different causes designed to build the economy of Armenia.  Lets concentrate on the future of Armenia, it's children and get them financially strong independent of living in state run and private ran orphanages.

Thank you Vatche, you are a real gem of our motherland. 

Vanessa Kachadurian Paros Foundation Choir meets Dance

Watch this exciting Dance with the Paros Foundation, This is a beautiful reminder how special needs people in Armenia are productive and are not our hidden citizens.  

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After SF Ballet’s New York tour I went home to Armenia, to visit my family and to dance there for the first time after 12 years. I danced the full length of Don Quixote in the capital city of Yerevan with my wife and fellow SF Ballet Principal Dancer Vanessa Zahorian. It was the first time she’d danced in Armenia, at the beautiful Armenian National Ballet Theater, and it was a great success!

Vanessa Kachadurian

The day after the performance, it was back to the theater at 6:30 am to take part in a performance project with Paros Chamber Choir—an award-winning group of singers that includes my father. Most of the choir members are survivors from the ’88 earthquake, and as you can see a number of them now use wheelchairs. As a hobby, they came together and in 1993 founded this singing group. They’re all incredible human beings, and have lots of passion in them. I donated my time to share the stage with the choir and dance while they were singing, in a performance to mark the 25th anniversary of the devastating 1988 Armenian earthquake.

My father was a famous folk dancer before his accident. He injured his back when he was 32 years old at a barbeque with friends—he did a flip off a barre like a gymnast, but his hands were greasy and he fell, breaking his spine. He had a major surgery to reconstruct his spine. He couldn’t walk for a year but then a miracle happened and he could walk. I was the miracle child. To this day, my father lives through the careers that my sister and I have, and he always told us “to live his dream and to finish what he had started”, since he wasn’t able to realize that dream

http://www.sfballetblog.org/2013/12/davit-in-armenia/