YEREVAN. – The “Russian-Armenian Youth Union” NGO (РАМЕ) plans to organize the “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” charity event to help the refugees who have come to Armenia from Syria.

The first such event will be held on March 23, in capital city Yerevan.

According to the 2016 official data, approximately 20 thousand refugees from Syria currently live in Armenia.

The objective of this charity event is to provide humanitarian aid to the families (refugees) from Syria, and to integrate them into the Armenian society.

For the first “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” charity event, it was decided to help 44 refugee families from Syria who now live in Yerevan.

This event will be organized once every two months.