On September 15 the new 2014-2015 academic year started in all types of educational institutions of Georgia.

The first bells of the new academic year also solemnly rang in the only Armenian school in Tbilisi, that is Tbilisi school number 104 (the principle’s acting Officer Irina Zhamkochyan). The teachers were standing besides the solemnly positioned children. The parents, the guests had gathered in the crowded yard. The staff of the “Hayartun” Center at the Armenian Diocese in Georgia, the staff of “Vrastan” (Georgia) newspaper, representatives of non-governmental organizations, national and non-governmental figures from the Diaspora had come to congratulate the schoolchildren on the beginning of the new academic year.

After the state hymns of Georgia and the Republic of Armenia, a group of graduates of the school, who are now students at universities, performed the hymn of this school. The principle of the school congratulated everyone on the new 2014 – 2015 academic year saying that the school was fully ready for the new academic year. He added that the year was going to be interesting, full of numerous new projects and ideas, which would be realized with the support of the schoolchildren, teachers and parents.

Later the priest Ter Housik Harutyunyan from the Armenian Diocese in Georgia addressed his blessings to the participants. Karine Manukyan (the coordinator of national school projects at the ministry of Education and Science of Georgia) introduced the changes and news during the learning process.

The editor of “Vrastan” (Georgia) newspaper Van Bayburtyan, the head of the “Hayartun” Center of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Georgia Levon Chidilyan, the president of the newly created Union of the Armenians living in Georgia Narek Bayanduryan greeted the schoolchildren and wished them not to be afraid of the difficulties, but to succeed in learning, to be educated like an Armenian, to grow a worthy citizen and a real Armenian.

The poet, translator Anahit Bostanjyan congratulated all the parents, who made a corrected decision to take their children to Armenian school in order to ensure education in Armenian and in order to educate them as an Armenian.

The Armenian non-governmental figures living in Beyrut, Zhirayr Danielyan and Hambik Martirosyan, who were in Tbilisi during these days, congratulated the Armenian society living in Tbilisi and all the schoolchildren on the new academic year, wishing them to preserve the Armenian spirit not so far away from the mother land, in Georgia, and especially in Tbilisi, as this spirit has been hovering over here for centuries.

After the sounds of the first bells, the children were taken to their classrooms. And the 22 first graders, among them eight children from the elementary school St. Movses Khorenatsi, received nice presents from the Union of Armenians in Georgia.

All the Armenian educational institutions in Tbilisi, Samtskhe Javakheti, Qvemi Qartli regions, as well as Batumi city, readily started the new academic year.