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 Anushka Hayrapetyan Anushka Hayrapetyan a youth activist from Armenia spoke to Cultural Voice about her passion to mobilize and educate young people as well as her latest project 'Use Art,' a social enterprise geared towards increasing awareness about the Millenium Development Goals.   At age 20, Anushka joined the National Youth Council of Armenia adding to the conversations on a wide range of youth-related issues such as, active citizenship, leadership, human rights, and intercultural dialogue striving to promote youth opportunities.           Recently Anushka, alongside her sister Arevik, have set up a blog to further their aims of youth empowerment.   Anushka believes that young people have so much potential and face so many challenges.   Teaching them about global issues affecting the planet such as global warming, violence, peace building.   Young people use imagination to help add...

Here are a few things you may not have known about Anush Hayrapetan, Manager of Forgottendiaries.org a project of youth action for change promoting intercultural dialogue and one of Cultural Voice's partners. Anush Hayrapetan: Founder, Forgotten Diaries Nationality: Armenian Anush has won the following awards: Hero of Millennium 2011, 2nd World Summit for Youth Volunteering EUNIC 2010 European youth competition winner,category “Democracy and Politeia” World Youth Summit Award 2010, category “Pursue truth” (Forgotten Diaries project related) Intercultural Innovation award 2010, Marketplace of Ideas of the UNAOC 3rd forum, (Forgotten Diaries project related) World Aware Education Award 2009, North-South Centre of Council of Europe (Forgotten Diaries project related) Favourite City: "My favorite city is Riga, the capital of Latvia. I lived there for almost a year and love it for its unusual charm, warm people and relaxing atmosphere." ...