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Karabakh Foundation to popularize Azerbaijani heritage in US schools - PHOTOSESSION

Karabakh Foundation to popularize Azerbaijani heritage in US schools - <font color=red>PHOTOSESSION</font>

14 February 2012 13:11 (UTC +04:00)

Participants of the 2012 Heritage Party, part of National Parent-Teacher Association’s (PTA) Take Your Family to School Week (February 12-19) showed great interest to the program organized by the Karabakh Foundation to popularize Azerbaijani cultural heritage.

US-based AXA Foundation donated a grant to Karabakh Foundation to organize this program. The event was opened by the representative of AXA Foundation. Karabakh Foundation Executive Director Diana Altman underlined the importance of the project.

Longfellow Middle School is one of the 45 schools selected by National PTA among 233 grant applicants for the project Take Your Family to School.
School Principal said representatives of 96 countries were studying at Longfellow and parent-teacher associations should involve the families in school and strengthen relations between the school and parents.

Following the opening ceremony, the participants received manuals about the Azerbaijani culture and saw Azerbaijani national dresses. The Heritage Party featured performances and lessons by the Karabakh Foundation Azerbaijani Dance Group. In the next phase of the project, Karabakh Foundation will open a webpage-based Azerbaijani Culture Center at Longfellow Middle School for the schoolâ€™s community and local residents. It will offer multiple programs and various resources to the people and create opportunity to know the activity of organizations like Karabakh Foundation, which unites different cultures and people.

Karabakh Foundation is planning to popularize Azerbaijani culture within the framework of the project Take Your Family in School in 50 state schools of the United States. The Foundation is preparing proposals for school principals to include materials about the Azerbaijani and Caucasus culture in the school program.

The Karabakh Foundation is a U.S. 501(c)(3) cultural charity foundation that preserves and shares the culture, arts, and heritage of Azerbaijan and the rest of the Caucasus.

Foundation programs include exhibitions, discussions, concerts, publications, films, lectures, Web displays, and informal gatherings dedicated to the experience of Azerbaijani/Caucasus cultural topics. Partners include content experts, cultural organizations, museums, scholars, educators, students, and other relevant communities.