What has become an Armenian-American Thanksgiving Day
tradition, the Armenia Fund’s International Telethon is going to hit the
airwaves for the 18th time on November 26 beginning 10:00 am in the morning and
going live for 12 hours, raising funds to provide new, fully furnished single
family homes to 211 families in Artsakh who have 5 or more children, but lack
adequate housing.
Clockwise from top: Mark Geragos, Paul Chaderjian, Stefani
Booroojian, Artak Herikyan, Hrant Tokhatyan, Tatevik Ekezian, Ludwig Manukian,
and Hakyaram Nahapetian.
Through a series of fast-paced Telethon videos Armenia Fund
will provide a report to more than 200,000 of its donors as well as the general
public on the projects implemented as a result of the fundraising campaigns of
the previous year as well as present the urgent need to help the parents of 5
or more children in Artsakh by providing them with adequate housing conditions.
Music videos featuring a who’s who of Armenia’s and the Diaspora’s singers will
provide entertainment keeping the audience glued to their TV screens in more
than 20 countries around the world.
Telethon 2015 will feature a wide range of hosts who will
tell the story of Armenia Fund as it enters its 24th year of helping the people
in rural Armenia and Artsakh by providing homes, schools, kindergartens,
hospitals, access roads, community centers, drinking and irrigation water
systems, natural gas pipelines and other necessities of life otherwise
unavailable to them.
Celebrity super-lawyer Mark Geragos and member of the
International Board of Trustees of Hayastan All Armenian Fund (Armenia Fund
International) will keep the telephones fired up and ringing off the hook as
more than 100 volunteers from Los Angeles based Armenian and public schools
will take pledges in the studio.
Veteran of Armenia Fund Telethons, renowned Armenian actor
and entertainer, Hrant Tokhatyan will be flying in from Armenia along with
Armenia TV’s news anchor and commentator, Artak Herikyan. Broadcast television
journalist and producer, Paul Chaderjian, who currently works for Qatar-based
Al-Jazeera television and has hosted the fund’s Telethons since its early days
will fly in from Doha to join the show and help convey Armenia Fund’s united
mission of rebuilding the Homeland.
Armenian Public Television’s Washington bureau chief,
political commentator Haykaram Nahapetian will bring his unique perspective on
this year’s beneficiary project.
Armenian-American television actor and script writer, Ludwig
Manukian, who, like other Telethon hosts, traveled to Armenia and Artsakh
extensively over the last years, visiting Armenia Fund’s projects, talking to
local residents and witnessing the tremendous positive and definite difference
the Telethons make in Armenia.
The who’s who of Armenian television journalists and
entertainers will be joined by Fresno’s NBC affiliate, KSEE24 anchor Stefani
Booroojian, who traveled to Armenia and Artsakh in April of this year,
reporting on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide as well as the projects of
Armenia Fund, so generously funded by the worldwide Armenian Diaspora.
Fresno’s diverse Armenian community will be also represented
by Tatevik Ekizian, hostess of numerous Armenian music shows, guiding the
audience through the variety of traditional and contemporary Armenian music.
Armenia Fund is grateful to all the hosts for donating their
time and talent working tirelessly to bring a definite positive change in the
lives of thousands in Armenia and Artsakh.
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