Beeline Armenia and Child Development Foundation have summed up "Let's Study Together" program. The program aims to contribute to the development of social skills and creative mind of children with special needs aged 16-25 and to their social integration. Around 20 children attended a specialized center twice a week. They had a special teacher and a psychologist to explore the preferences and capabilities that will help them feel more confident in the society in the future. The program also worked with the parents of these young people. The parents received recommendations and information on how to use the capabilities of the young people.
"Beeline welcomes and highlights the implementation of programs that help children and young people change their lives for the better. Since these children rarely have an opportunity to visit historical and cultural sites and familiarize themselves with the cultural values and the centuries-old history, we decided to pay a visit Geghard Monastery together and to sum up the program there," said Beeline Armenia CEO Andrey Pyatakhin. "This program allows revealing the preferences of the children and young people and establishing contacts with the employers who want to hire and employ the young people with certain skills. People with special needs have the right to make their own contribution to different fields and to feel that they are useful to the society", said Head of Child Development Foundation Lusine Simoyan. The program kicked off in October 2014.
To note, ArmenTel CJSC (Beeline brand) is a member of VimpelCom Group. VimpelCom is one of the world's largest integrated telecommunications services operators providing voice and data services through a range of traditional and broadband mobile and fixed technologies in Russia, Italy, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic and Canada. VimpelCom provides services under the "Beeline", "Kyivstar", "Wind", "Infostrada" "Mobilink", "Leo", "banglalink", "Telecel", and "Djezzy" brands. In Q3 2014, the total number of Beeline subscribers in Armenia exceeded 800 thsd, and the number of broadband Internet subscribers was 150 thsd.