VIVA Charity Foundation. Doctors and Volunteers for Armenia

VIVA Charity Foundation

Doctors and Volunteers for Armenia

VIVA is about well-being! VIVA is about life!

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FUND NEWS

Humanitarian Aid for Armenia

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June 26, 2020

Thanks to all of you on June 21 once again we delivered humanitarian aid to Armenia! 49 doctors from Russia, not only Armenians, but doctors …

Helping our soldier

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June 16, 2020

Albert lived in Russia, but is from Armenia’s Vanadzor city, originally. A brilliant student of …

Narineh Harutyunyan

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March 27, 2020

Narineh Harutyunyan, 32 years old. Diagnosis: Disorders of the spinal cord of the level of …

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PROJECTS

MEDICINE

One of VIVA’s top priorities is the improvement of hospital equipment throughout Armenia and we already have tangible results in this direction.

EDUCATION

VIVA’s Education Project includes: Organization of trainings for doctors from Armenia and Equipping with literature medical institutions of Armenia.

Twenty percent of VIVA’s activities are social projects aimed at improving the lives of socially disadvantaged large families. The projects “Farmyard”, “Thyme”, “Raspberry” provide with self-employment not only large families, but also students and retirees.

EVENTS

VIVA Charity Foundation.
Doctors and Volunteers for Armenia

VIVA is about well-being! VIVA is about life!

VIVA was founded on April 7, 2016, after the four-day war in Artsakh. Already on the fourth day of the war, VIVA was delivering medical supplies, equipment, and ambulances to Artsakh.

Our main mission is to provide hospitals in Armenia and Artsakh with the necessary medical equipment and supplies. The Fund was registered as a non-profit organization in Armenia in 2017.

By 2018 VIVA had provided aid in the amount of 7, 973, 690.70 rubles. Medical equipment and supplies in the amount of 3,000,000 rubles had been donated to the Fund.

Transparency and openness are the fundamental principles of VIVA. All the reports are published on our facebook page.

OUR TEAM

Tatiana Oganesyan

Chairman of the VIVA Foundation

Tatiana Oganesyan

Chairman of the VIVA Foundation

Candidate of Medical Sciences, therapist, gastroenterologist, practicing doctor at the 4th City Clinical Hospital. Graduated with honors from the Moscow Medical Academy after Sechenov in 2002. Defended her Ph.D. thesis in the field of internal medicine and medical genetics. Was engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities at the Moscow State Medical University after Yevdokimov. Author of over 70 publications.

Viktor Mikhailov

Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics

Viktor Mikhailov

Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics

The highest values for me are freedom and time – once lost, they cannot be returned.

I am easygoing, but sometimes my jokes can be sharp. I am an idealist and a man of principle, which sometimes can hinder success. Competition is not always the engine of progress – its effect can sometimes obscure and deter real development.

I like to communicate with the youth and I believe that good teachers learn from their students. If you didn’t participate in the change of the regime when you were young, you either had a happy youth or missed out on it.

I strongly believe that humanity deserves better. Our common task it to make the world a better place. Inaction is worse than failed initiatives.

Doing charity is not easy. You shouldn’t expect dividends or gratitude. Unfortunately, some people will think that you are doing it for a reason and not only out of ideological motives. Don’t waste time on proving the opposite – it will just create an additional negative background in the perception of people. Charity must be targeted and professional. You do not need to be rich to do charity – everyone can do it.

Anahit Andreasyan

Commercial director at a manufacturing company

Anahit Andreasyan

Commercial director at a manufacturing company

Studied Accounting and Economic Analysis at the Academy of Finance under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The most important human quality is dignity. It is directly proportional to the virtue you see in others.

I do not like to be in the spotlight. I prefer to do my job quietly, but the result of my work must be impeccable and tangible.

Love is unlimited trust and your most natural state. Happiness is always there, although often we do not notice it. The quintessence of my happiness is my child.

I strongly believe in the power and energy of our emotions. The birth of my kid is the result of the immense power of my love thrown into the cosmos. The power of my hope is so great that sometimes I think I am all-powerful. Like a wizard, I can make any of my wishes come true, if only I really want it very much.

Logic is very important for me. All my actions and thoughts obey to logic. Many people think in other categories – images, impulses, intuition. This is not for me. I try to build the logic of their actions for myself to understand them. The funniest thing is that my husband is one of these people.

I am for parity and justice. But sometimes life puts us in such absurd situations where we have to choose between these two concepts. This is the hardest choice for me.

Armenia is my all! I live and breathe with Armenia though I have lived abroad for the last 24 years. I can’t be fully happy unless Armenia is prospering.

Charity is not a way of life or a whim. Charity is just a small effort to restore the damaged divine world order. Our world is not perfect. And the reason of this is the humans. We cannot stay indifferent.

When engaged in charity, you feel your powerlessness the sharpest. The hardest thing is having to make a choice when you have limited resources. The thought – “Have I done the right choice?”- is always torturing you. And there is no answer to it.

Aram Ter-Hakobyan

Entrepreneur

Aram Ter-Hakobyan

Entrepreneur

I was born in Yerevan in 1979, studied Economics and Management at the Moscow State University of Design and Technologies. I am a businessman.

I love life and try to get maximum of it!

I live for today, as you never know what tomorrow will bring. I love spending time with my friends and family.

I value honesty and justice in people.

The 90s forced many people leave their homeland in search of better life. I have lived in Moscow since 1993. I went to school and university here. I studied and worked at the same time. In my heart I have always been with my motherland and always tried to help my friends and relatives whenever possible.

I have always wanted to do something global for Armenia.

After the four-day war of April 2016, with a group of friends we started to intensively help Armenia and Artsakh. Our group of like-minded people, ready to help homeland, continued to grow, and soon the idea of founding VIVA was born.

VIVA is my second family. I cannot imagine my life without VIVA. We all do our best to find time, means and strengths to do something good for our motherland despite our incredibly busy schedule. We all love Armenia and want to see it strong and flourishing.

Anoush Markosyan

Head of International Business Development Department at a large retail company

Anoush Markosyan

Head of International Business Development Department at a large retail company

We all have pros and cons. I chose to see the pros in people – this way it is easier to live. I adore my family and love my friends!

I feel bad for having to live out of Armenia. VIVA helps me feel better. Armenia has its special and very important place in my international family!

I love my job. I like the feeling when you do what you love and you strive for results.

I am panicky afraid of the 40th anniversary … Fortunately, my husband is not, or at least pretends no to be. But it helps. I think, I need to change my comfort zone by that time. It might help.

How would I describe myself? Well, I start each Monday with a diet! I am a pacifist, an agnostic, a shopaholic, an atypical Mom and wife. I try to be friends with my kids and a forever- surprising wife.

Albert Hovsepyan

Albert Hovsepyan

I was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1981. I graduated from the State University of Management. I work in the manufacturing industry.

I had always been wary of charitable organizations until I met VIVA.

With VIVA I got the opportunity to show targeted support. I believe that most Armenians living abroad feel the need to be useful to our Motherland. For me it is really important to see the result.

The very idea of helping without pursuing any personal interests is fundamental in charity.

The VIVA team is united and dedicated to the common cause, which helps us achieve results.

Irina Mamikonyan

PhD in Medicine, obstetrician-gynecologist, ultrasonographer

Irina Mamikonyan

PhD in Medicine, obstetrician-gynecologist, ultrasonographer

In 2006 Irina graduated from Medical Institute of Oryol State University. Afterwards, she passed PhD dissertation defense in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Currently, Irina is a head of Gynecology Department in Stolitsa Medical Center and an instructor at medical simulation center of Botkin Hospital.

I am a small part of VIVA, when united, we become a hurricane which brings kindness and health to those who need it most. Thinking about it, I realize that I started volunteering not out of nowhere.

While being a student I was an active member of Youth Branch of Armenian Community in Oryol. We worked hard in order to revive our community life. When I moved to Moscow I knew distinctly what I want to do apart from medical practice.

For me, being a doctor means to help people. VIVA gives me such a great chance to become better, kinder, wiser and support those nearby, sending bright sparks of emotions, which fill you every time you make a new step towards kindness, to Space. However, there is another important aspect. VIVA is an invisible link with Home, Motherland, which many of us left. Armenia is in the heart of everyone and VIVA gives us a chance to be closer to Armenia, give it a hand, heal its wounds and become the very shoulder our country may rely on in hard times.