OREANDA-NEWS. March 31, 2009. Today the presentation of the children’s book “Following the Sun”was held in Children’s Library after Khnko Aper. The book was published recently by  the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) in partnership with Armenia’s leading mobile operator VivaCell-MTS. 
 
During the event Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, Head of OSCE in Yerevan and the German Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin behalf of the OSCE and German Embassy spoke of the contributions of their embassy’s to the translation of the book into Russian and German. FPWC Director Ruben Khachatryan and VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian spoke on new environmental initiatives under the framework of VivaCell-MTS-FPWC partnership. VivaCell-MTS General Manager also spoke on corporate environmental responsibility.
 
The book “Following the Sun” is a collection of stories dedicated to nature. The special feature of the publication is its children for children approach. All tales and also the illustrations are created by children. In the frame of the event there will be additionally presented an audio book CD based on the book, and the www.savethenature.am website. The latter is the first environmental web portal established by FPWC for Armenian children and youth.
 
The book and the website are projects accomplished in the frame of the “Save the Nature” campaign implemented by FPWC in the Republic of Armenia and VivaCell-MTS.
 
In the frame of the event also the children theater group of the library after Khnko Aper performed a short dramatized version of three tales from the book “Following the Sun”. One of the special features of some tales collected in the book is an open end. Young readers as well as listeners of the audio book are invited to continue the stories and send their ideas to the FPWC office.