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Fifth Annual Summer Camp

Following the success of the past four years, the Shushi Committee has once again organized its annual summer camp.  The camp includes sports activities, English lessons, dance classes, computer instruction, arts & crafts, and educational lectures for the local children.  Through donations, the committee also designs and prints t-shirts which are handed out to the children and faculty at the end of the camp.

The tentative dates for the camp is August 6-14, 2008.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a de facto independent republic in the South Caucasus , officially part of the Republic of Azerbaijan , about 270 kilometres (170 miles) west of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku , and very close to the border with Armenia.
The Soviet Union incorporated the predominantly Armenian region as the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast ( NKAO ) in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1923 . On December 10 , 1991 , as the Soviet Union was collapsing , a referendum held in the NKAO and the neighboring district of Shahumian resulted in a declaration of independence from Azerbaijan as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic ( NKR ), which remains unrecognized by any international organization or country , including Armenia.
In the final years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the region became a source of dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, culminating in the Nagorno-Karabakh War . Since the end of the war in 1994 , most of Nagorno-Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan around it remain under Armenian military control. Since then, the parties have been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group
Source: Nagorno-Karabakh, Wikipedia