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GYUMRI, APRIL 28, ARMENPRESS: The winners of the essay competition announced within the framework of "Child Trafficking Prevention" program were awarded today at N7 School of Gyumri.
It is the second year the "Mobilized and Empowered System of Prevention of Child Trafficking in Armenia through Awareness Raising, Capacity Building and Networking" project has been organized in Armenia in assistance with the European Union, Czech Republic Government, "People in Need", "Hope and Help", Armenian Relief Society. 319 teachers received trainings within the framework of the project. Special trainings on trafficking were held in public schools. The essay competition was announced December.
Tatev Bejanyan, project director, told Armenpress that a survey, carried out before the launch of the project, showed that the level of children's awareness of the phenomenon is low. Taking into account this fact the organizers worried about its efficiency. Tatev Bejanyan informed that 3000 essays were presented for the competition, announced after the awareness trainings.
"It was quite difficult for us to select 150 ones, and then 31 ones – 3 essays from each marz. The results were impressive: the essays were brilliant," Tatev Bejanyan said.
Tatev Kotoyan, pupil of the public school of Amasia, received the first prize.