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ORGANIZATION NOTES: UP FROM SCRATCH; The Canadian Youth Mission to
Armenia Is Putting Muscle Behind Charity

In paint-spattered shorts and a T-shirt, his edge sweating in the
sweltering August heat, 23-year-old Jean-Philippe Tachdjian of Montreal,
Canada, scrapes a window sill in the kindergarten he's helping to
rebuild in the Ararat region of southern Armenia.

"My family hasn't been in Armenia for 900 years," Tachdjian says.
"It's my first trip to this land, further I don't think of it in limits
of time. It's a faculty of perception of identity, it's a thinking principle of ...

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