AYRUDZI Horse Riding Club
Everything began in Yerevan in 1980 when a group
of enthusiasts decided to create a horse club. For more than 10 years
the expedition has been facing one of the most significant problems of
our nation - preservation of the Armenian culture and spirit. Putting
aside professional career, AYRUDZI has been disseminating ethnographic
culture - songs and dances, the traditional theater of shadows, national
riding games and rites - in villages and rural communities. The AYRUDZI
has reached many remote regions of Armenia. It has participated in various
festivals, TV and Radio programs.
After collapse of the Soviet Union the AYRUDZI
faced the problem of preservation of the facilities and resources, created
throughout years, horses and the club spirit. It had to take up new methods
of working in new conditions. During the period of 1996-97, with the assistance
of the Armenian Red Cross and the Red Cross of Netherlands a summer camp
for orphans has been created. Here all the conditions are created: rent-free
sojourn in comfortable cottages, food, recreation and the most important
thing-contact with pedigree horses. We have qualified coaches who train
the children and infuse nurture love towards horses. Any kind of work
is done by the club members, beginning from cooking and ending with various
household problems. In September we designed a new program which implies
providing treatment to children. In other words, we are going to practice
a horse therapy here. It has a proven positive impact on such diseases
as the infantile cerebral paralysis, illnesses of urinal tracts, etc.
Today AYRUDZI is stepping into a new phase. The
club has good facilities, sports ground, convenient cottages, and favorable
conditions for riding activities, fine thoroughbred horses.
By becoming club members (the club is already 18
years old) one can learn riding and participate in Riding tours by beautiful
routes.
You are welcome to the riding complex AYRUDZI.
By using our services youll assist development and prosperity of
the Horse Riding Club.
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