A Gift with a Mission
To honor and benefit the heroic, inspiring, and strong people of Artsakh
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How it Started
Ser Artsakh is a charitable initiative launched on June 1, 2022 by Anna Astvatsaturian Foundation. It was first designed to benefit families in Artsakh who chose to live and stay in post-war Artsakh. We delivered baby boxes with quality made-in-Armenia items to all newborns in Artsakh before, during and after the blockade. After Artsakh’s tragic ethnic cleansing in September 2023, we continued the initiative for Artsakh babies born in Armenia to many displaced families. To support those forcibly displaced we provided each newborn with 22-25 vital items of supplies in a beautiful gift box. By the end of the initiative on June 1, 2024, since launching it two years prior, the Foundation supported close to 3000 babies with its Ser Artsakh baby boxes.
Ser Artsakh Now
Ser Artsakh initiative continues in new formats and with expanding goals.
Ser Artsakh Sewing
Anna Astvatsaturian Foundation is providing displaced Artsakhtsis with professional training courses in sewing and Entrepreneurship.
Purpose:Â Provide displaced individuals with practical skills, empowering them to start their own businesses or secure jobs in the textile industry, ensuring sustainable employment opportunities for the families displaced from Artsakh.
Schedule:Â The Program is 12 weeks long, covering the essential knowledge and skills needed for success and will continue, as the need continues.
Partners:Â Our Partner Lalunz, LLC is assisting us with this initiative.
Funding: We have supplied Lalunz with sewing equipment and necessary supplies to launch the initiative and will be paying for their time. Lalunz is donating  their skills and their facilities to accommodate these classes. Our donors may sponsor individuals who are taking the course by Donating $100 per student.
Application:Â We welcome any individual recently displaced from Artsakh to apply for a free 12-week course in sewing, patterns and entrepreneurship. Even if the courses have begun, they will repeat in the future.
Please complete the Application Form and email the completed form to the following email
Training courses in other industries and with other partners will be available in the future. If you would like to collaborate with us on this initiative, please Contact us.
Sponsor one individual to be professionally trained as a seamstress or tailor.
Ser Artsakh Beehives
Anna Astvatsaturian Foundation is providing displaced Artsakhtsis with beehives and necessary supplies to relaunch their honey business.
Purpose: Provide displaced individuals with an opportunity to produce and sell honey.
Funding: Each beehive with necessary supplies will cost $0. Our donors may sponsor individual beehives for the displaced from Artsakh by Donating $250 per beehive set.
Sponsor one beehive to be gifted to an Artsakh family.Â
Lalunz is an Armenian brand of children’s clothing. At Lalunz you will find stylish, comfortable and high-quality clothes for children ages 0-12 years old.
Play Artsakh designs and creates beautify wooden toys in Artsakh. This is our family hobby which we hope to develop into a successful business. We hope our toys reach children not only in Artsakh but all over the world.
Theopharma Imports, LLC is one of the largest pharmaceuticals and health care product distributors in Armenia. It has both wholesale and retail sides of the business. The retail side of the company is conducted through 60 pharmacies belonging to the company.
- Raffi Berberian Photography
Raffi Berberian is an Armenian American photographer, historian and teleprompter operator. He lived and worked in Armenia for 2 years and currently creates beautiful work in the Philadelphia.
