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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
Here are our “walkers in”, Centaur’s true friends, people whose contribution to the foundation and development of hippotherapy in Armenia is invaluable:
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Mihran Sahakyan
He made this web site. In fact he was the first supporter and sponsor of the idea. He is the one whose support, understanding and optimism played a great role for hippotherapy to come into being in Armenia.
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Haniel and Martin Riviere-Allen
Our great friends and the first sponsors of hippotherapy in Armenia. Thanks to them and their friends six children from the Kharberd orphanage for children with special needs had an opportunity to attend a 3 months course of hippotherapy and three children (who live in families)attend hippotherapy sessions now. In fact they have as much right to call themselves developers of hippotherapy in Armenia as we have :)
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Nicholas Bruno and Anush Dulgaryan
They are the first people whom I (Hasmik) shared my idea of starting hippotherapy in Armenia with. Now they are the first ones we share even our smallest joys and victories with. Their never-ending enthusiasm and great help in finding funds and sponsors for the children makes them an important and inseparable part of hippotherapy in Armenia.
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Jessica Sänger and Uwe Pfeiffer
In a small café in Tbilisi where I was studying hippotherapy we raised our glasses with Georgian wine and Jess predicted big success for hippotherapy in Armenia. She was so sure about it that I believed her! And perhaps that belief helped us achieve what we have achieved so far. After all, inspiration is the beginning of every undertaking :)
But this is not all. Jessica and Uwe along with their friends saved one of our horses, Salma, from being slaughtered. Her owner wanted to give the horse to a meat-packing factory and Uwe and Jessica helped us buy the horse from him and save her life!
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Lilit Arshakyan
This crazy creature is rather a part of our team than a “friend of Centaur”. She is very good at finding right people and right contacts at the right time. She dreams (and plans!) of studying color therapy in Netherlands and applying it in our center of alternative therapy which we are going to turn our center of hippotherapy into. So you will still hear about her!
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Chrisandra and Nottingham World Dancing Group
Chrisandra and I met and became eternal friends in Nottingham where she gave me my first ever lessons of Armenian dance! She and her partner Jane (they also do horseback riding) have always been among the main supporters of our idea for starting hippotherapy in Armenia.
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And recently Chrisandra has managed to interest her Nottingham World Dancing Group (among their innumerous dances from all around the world are Armenian dances as well) in our activity. The members gathered money for our horses and children by a very unique way-selling to each other things they did not needed! Thank you all for your invaluable help!
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Thomas Coon
First Tom is our friend. Second he has an amazing ability of listening to my ideas, plans and actions concerning the horses and hippotherapy for hours (the quality I of course estimate much since it inspire ;)). Third he often gives practical advices for solutions of my emotional ideas. Last but far not the least; he fully edited the English version of the website!
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