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USAID Helps the Elderly in Aley

December 5, 2008

USAID/Lebanon Mission Director Denise A. Herbol presented $50,000 to the Armenian Sanatorium on December 5, 2008. USAID’s assistance will allow the center to procure furniture for the elderly section. Established in 1937 in the village of Azounieh in the Aley district, the Armenian Sanatorium is a non-profit center that provides high quality and low cost geriatrics and pulmonary disease treatment for 135 elderly persons per year.  Patients come from economically disadvantaged families mainly from the Armenian Lebanese community and from villages surrounding Azounieh. The center currently employs 60 persons

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