AGBU Lebanon — Our History

30 Jan 1912 AGBU Financial, educational and humanitarian aid to Western Armenia Provinces..Moush, Sasoon and Hadjen

10 Mar 1912 1912 AGBU Central Board decided to open 9 new schools in Armenian villages.

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20 Mar 1912 1912 March AGBU Sponsored a Teaching school project in Van.

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30 Mar 1912 AGBU Kelegian Orphanage is almost ready

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6 May 1912 AGBU Kelegian Orphanage building construction accomplished

4 Jun 1912 AGBU asking refund of a specific project donation

9 Jul 1912 Report from B. Kapamadjian about the Teaching School in Van.

12 Sep 1912 1912 AGBU Schools in Western Armenia 30+4

10 Dec 1914 (WW I) have started. And a new fund raising by the AGBU to help the Armenian refugees.

20 Apr 1915 1915 Apr AGBU Kelegian orphanage in a dangerous situation

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21 Oct 1915 1915 Oct 21 AGBU Sisouan school in Port Said refugee camp

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Nov 1915 1915 November the Church tent in Port Said refugee camp

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8 Nov 1916 1916 November, Port Said refugee camp, a group of school teachers

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4 May 1917 1917 May Port Said and Sisvan ...more reforms in the camp

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10 Nov 1917 1917 Nov AGBU Port Said Sisvan school 2250 students

15 Jan 1918 1918 Jan. AGBU Orphanage in Baghdad to be moved to Jerusalem

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15 May 1918 1918 May Refugees from Salt (Jordan) area to Jerusalem Orphanage

15 Jul 1918 1918 July "Starting 1st of August the British Army Headquarters will take care of Port Said Refugee camp

20 Nov 1918 1918 Nov Armenian orphans of Ayntoura school

30 Jan 1919 AGBU project proposal to the British authorities "The Directorate of Relief And Repatriation of Refugees" accepted

2 Feb 1919 Hovhanes Keledjian a hero that rescued hundreds of Armenian refugees kidnapped in Arabian deserts

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15 Feb 1919 1919 Feb "A group of 120 boy scouts group in Sisvan AGBU school in Port Said camp headed by Mr. Haig (the camp governor) Major G. A. Brown and others...

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23 Nov 1919 1919 Nov 23 Port Said Orphans and Sisvan school students arriving Port Mersin

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20 Dec 1919 1919 H.H. Sahag Catholicos visiting AGBU Kelegian Orphanage in Deort yol

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19 Jan 1920 1920 AGBU new orphanages in Hadjen and Deort Yol, Workplace in Adana..

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25 Nov 1921 "800 orphans from "Naher el Omar" orphanage in Baghdad will be moved to Jerusalem.

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5 Dec 1921 1921 AGBU Carpet Workshop in Adana to create jobs for needy women and widows.

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31 Dec 1921 The AGBU orphans from Mersin and Deort Yol are moving to Lebanon before December 31st..

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20 Apr 1922 AGBU Kelegian and Sisvan orphanages moved to Beirut new locations

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11 Apr 1923 1920s Armenian Refugee camps AGBU and Construction of Armenian first residential neighborhoods in Lebanon

24 Apr 1923 Genocide Commemoration in AGBU Orphanage in Beirut

20 May 1923 Four violin players from AGBU Kelegian orphanage in Beirut

10 Aug 1923 1923 Aug 11 The AGBU Fanfare scouts pay tribute to Near East Relief American Director's visit to Jerusalem

25 Sep 1923 Last year two of the Kelegian young orphans were granted "Khan Kelegian" scholarship and were graduated from AUB (1922) by distinction

11 Mar 1924 1924 The Tripoly School subsidized by the AGBU

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16 Jul 1924 1924-25 AGBU Kelegian-Sisvan Orphanage in Beirut

20 Sep 1924 The Jerusalem Araradian orphanage Marching band that will be travelling to Ethiopia as His Majesty's guests,

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26 Oct 1924 1924 Nov 250 orphans from AGBU orphanages "on the road" to Yerevan

10 Jan 1925 1925 AGBU Musical band members settled in Adis Abeba, organized a New Year fund raising campaign for their orphan friends in Beirut

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10 Jan 1925 1925 AGBU signing 3 agreements with Government of Armenia for the AGBU new projects in Armenia

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27 Jul 1925 1925 AGBU new artisanal workshops for young girls in the orphanages

10 Aug 1925 1925 AGBU Ladies Auxiliary managing committee of the Orphanage Artisanal work shop

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15 Aug 1925 Scout groups, a musical Band, a choir and a fanfare group of girls under the leadership of Krikor Hagobian, with improved musical instruments, performed enthusiastically at Kelegian Sisouan orphanage

22 Aug 1925 AGBU providing 30 Eng. Sovereign dowry for each bride from its Orphanages

9 Apr 1926 AGBU Orphanage graduates union formed in Beirut under the auspices of Dr. Amadian

18 Apr 1926 AGBU 20th Anniversary in Beirut at AGBU Kelegian Orphanage Hall

11 Apr 1927 AGBU Kelegian Orphans fund rasing for Armenia earth-quake victims.

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14 Apr 1927 AGBU 21st Anniversary celebration in Beirut-Kelegian Orphanage

19 Aug 1927 1927 Aug 19 AGBU Orphanage handicraft exhibition in Zahle

26 Apr 1928 AGBU will take care of the 75 orphans of Jounieh orphanage and

27 Jan 1929 Searching and liberating the kidnaped armenian orphans liberation is steel going on since the armistice

21 Oct 1929 AGBU subsidized Elementary school in Rayaq

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17 Dec 1929 Newly arrived 61 orphans from Kayseri, settled in Kelegian Orphanage.

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Sep 1931 AGBU Pareshen Project in Beirut

16 Jan 1932 The 25 orphans from Caysery in Turkey arriving to Beirut Kelegian Orphanage.

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9 May 1932 AGBU Gulabi Gulbengian fund to build houses in Beirut to help settling down the Armenian refugees

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15 Jul 1932 AGBU funding a new district of houses "Pareshen" in Beirut suburb for settling more Armenian homeless refugee families.

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19 Mar 1934 1934-1935 AGBU Gullabashen neighborhood constructioni

31 Dec 1936 1936 A list of 142 schools (mainly in the Middle East) sponsored or subsidized by the AGBU in 1936.

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25 Nov 1937 1937 AGBU Subsidized Noubarian School Sports Day in Alexandret

28 Nov 1937 AGBU Noubarian school in Tripoly organized a fund raising theatrical performance Nov 28,

9 Feb 1938 The New-Noubarian School in Tripoly have organized a gathering in honor AGBU Educational supervisor Mr. Michael Natanian

26 Jun 1938 The Noubarian School (Tripoly) Commencement was held on June 26. The Speaker was Mr. Michael Natanian.

15 Sep 1938 "Mamelteyn" Sanatorium moved to a more healthier location in Lebanese Shouf District in "Azounieh". The AGBU is continuously supporting the Sanatorium since 1931

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20 Oct 1938 1938-1939 Armenian National school in Baalbeck subsidized by AGBU

19 May 1939 1939 May 19, Papa Kuntsler's 40th Jubilee Celebration in Beirut, the Suisse benevolent that helps the Armenians since 1899

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2 Aug 1939 AGBU USA fundraising to support Armenian refugees deported from Alexandret-Sanjak.

21 Aug 1939 The AGBU Beneficiary School in Bikfaya held its Commencement on August 21st.

25 Nov 1939 AGBU Tarouhy Hagopian Sec. School opened its doors and started the teaching 1st season.