Raffi Kojian’s Hye Plan
Is this a good or bad idea from Raffi? Check Hye Plan out and share your thoughts…
In response to the discussion going on in the Diaspora logs, I have decided to put online a concept paper I drafted for “promoting Armenia and Armenianism worldwide”. It includes ideas which would both promote Armenia proper, promote the and strengthen the Diaspora, and tie the two together more firmly. It is a compilation of ideas I’ve had over the years (many of which are of course not original), but which, if implemented in part or in whole could make a massive impact on our nation across the planet. To implement the whole thing would require massive resources, but bits of it could be done quite easily (and many of them rather profitably).
Some of the ideas include:
- Creating real “Little Armenia’s”, which are not just Armenian neighborhoods with a couple of bakeries, but offer a true taste of Armenia and a sort of cool neighborhood with a real flavor and tourist attraction, educational opportunities, shopping, and a tighter community. These would be also be implemented in cities where there used to be Armenian quarters centuries ago, but have disappeared (Lviv, Venice).
- Building a large-scale retirement community in Armenia, where every concern and reason why someone wouldn’t want to retire in Armenia (except the colder winters) would be addressed.
- Creating a series of Armenian theme restaurants and bars to be franchised around the world… what better way into peoples hearts, than through their bellies?
Well, if the ideas interest you, check ‘em out link…
Raffi,
The idea of providing a retirement community for Armenians of Diaspora is an excellent business idea. There are many Armenians (including myself) who would welcome the opportunity to live in the Mother Land. However, other important facilities (e.g. health care, good transportation, etc.) must be in place in order to attract retirees.
I hope that a good group of businessmen will cash-in on this idea.
Keep up the good work.
Ari
Comment by Ari — 5/21/2006 @ 4:02 pm
Parev Raffi.
I would apreciate if you could contack me .Is very very important.An Armenian friend of mine who lives in U.K.is looking for his family tree and he asked me to help him because his grand father Hrant Gulessarian mooved from Turkey to Manchester U.K.he was a silk merchant.Mr resarches brang me to the article about Mark Gulessarian whos article was published in Armenipedia.I would be gratefull to you if yoy could provide me the mail address or and contack of mr Mark Gulessarian in order to contack and check if He is the wright person that we are looking.Raffi we need your help,please
All the best.
Comment by Osin Elagozian — 6/4/2006 @ 3:25 pm
Have a look at this website -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/wdytya_celeb_gallery_05.shtml
I think Hrant Gulessarian has been found.
Comment by sjb — 10/6/2006 @ 6:25 pm
Hi Raffi,
I wanted to find out from you if you want me to generate all the Armeniapedia pages in audio format so you can put audio versions of each page (for Blind or just people that want to hear the audio version of the pages) for you.
Please let me know, we can do this quit quickly. There is no charge, I will do it as a service for the Armenian community.
Thanks,
Diran Afarian
http://www.BlueGrind.com
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