Renovated health station, library and administrative offices in Dovegh
Dovegh village is part of the enlarged Noyemberyan community of Tavush Marz. The distance between the village and the border is only 1.5 km. Despite this, it has 530 inhabitants, and the number of households reaches 150.
Dovegh's library and administrative offices are on the same floor in the community center. It was renovated in the 90s of the past century. The facilities were deplorable, with half-rotted window frames and a destroyed and nonfunctioning bathroom. The village health station, which operates in a part of another building, also needed repair. The floor and window frames were rotten, and the paint on the walls and ceiling needed redoing.
In 2022, with the financial support of the Canadian Yalkezian Foundation, the Tavush Regional Office of the "Shen" NGO started the implementation of the renovation project. The plan was to renovate one floor of the community center and the health station located in a separate building.
We signed the project implementation contract with the Noyemberyan consolidated community and the initiative group of Dovegh. The community undertook to replace the windows and install the entrance door of the health station. The initiating group, in its turn, undertook to carry out the demolition and construction waste removal works and perform the unforeseen works arising during the construction.
"Shen" NGO provided the necessary construction material for the repair. We hired two foremen and two laborers from Dovegh village to do the construction.
During the implementation of the project, we were able to change the eight windows of the community center, install window sills, repair and furnish the bathroom, change the electric transmission lines and install LED lighting, tile the corridor, and repair the library and the two offices. In the health station, we changed five windows and the entrance door, installed windowsills, tiled the floor of two rooms, and repaired and painted all three rooms.
For the implementation of the project, the Yalkezian Foundation allocated about 5 million AMD, and the community's contribution was about 1.9 million AMD in the form of materials and gratuitous works.
As a result of the project, today, the Dovegh village administration, the library, and the health station serve the residents in beautiful, comfortable, and proper working conditions.
