The 13th annual telethon organized by the All-Armenian Hayastan Fund will be launched today at 8:00 p.m. The Telethon titled “Water is Life” will be broadcasted from Los Angeles by H1, Armenia, Shant and Yerkir Media TV companies, as well as local Los Angeles Armenian channels.

Proceeds from the telethon will benefit the development of modern drinking and irrigation water systems in Nagorno-Karabakh’s 200 villages.

As NEWS.am reported earlier, at the annual gala night of the All-Armenian Hayastan Fund held in Moscow Armenian businessmen of Russia promised to allocate $8 m. Pan-European Phoneathon was also held in France on November 18-21.  France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Greece have participated in the fund-raising event, collecting about €1, 300,000.