Village of Argil

Argil, Armenia – 2016. I was in Argil on a Habitat for Humanity Global Village build. The build site was in the village of Argil which is located in the Kotayk province and which is about a half hour drive North of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The village is fairly spread out and is primarily on the east side of the Hrazdan River which has a very impressive gorge.
Soviet era apartment buildings in Argel
Soviet era apartment buildings in Argel
The main entrance and electrical panel in one of the Apartment buildings showing the lack of maintenance for common areas in the building.
Former mail boxes in one of the Apartment buildings showing deterioration of services and maintenance following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The main door to the apartment building showing the lack of maintenance for common areas in the building. The apartment that we used for washing and toilet was…
Near the build site in Argel, Armenia
Argel, Armenia
The office complex for the Armbas manufacturing company
We visited the School in Argel. The school was the best maintained building that I saw in Argel. This class was doing arithmetic (in two languages) and later…
Fire protection equipment in the school
A French class that we visited
The school playground equipment
The school playground equipment
River trout in a fish farm beside the Hrazdan River. A couple of these were to be our lunch
fish farm beside the Hrazdan River
Logs and fire wood packed very tightly into the back of a truck
A stone carver in Argel working on a Khatchkar – or cross stone carving. Some of the preliminary work was using power tools but all the finishing work is by…
A stone carver in Argel working on a Khatchkar – or cross stone carving
The Khatchkar stones at the Christian Armenia Memorial in Angel, Armenia
War Memorial, Argel, Armenia