Brazilian Armenian community facing serious challenges
“Brazilian Armenian community comprises 30 thousand people. It is the fifth generation growing up there,” chairman of Brazil branch of “Hayastan” All-Armenian Fund Oshin Leon Mosditchian said in news conference.
He said there are Armenian churches in Brazil, one Armenian school where 90-100 schoolchildren are studying and several Armenian institutions.
Representatives of Brazilian Armenian community Eduardo Mekbekyan and Arshak Janyan told the reporters that knowledge of Armenian language and decreasing number of the community are the main challenges.
“A very little part of Brazilian Armenians know Armenian language, in Armenia too few people speak Portuguese,” said the reps of Armenian community.
According to them Armenians and Brazilian Armenians fail to efficiently communicate through English, too. Hence, Armenia faces serious challenges in keeping communication with Brazilian Armenian community.