I am a volunteer and program coordinator of Fuller Center for Housing, Armenia, Vanadzor office. Today is the last day with my first team of 2011 in our region; the last working day. We have been working on the house construction of a needy family in the village of Yeghegnut.
My goal is that people knew more about the housing need in Armenia and came to help to illuminate the poverty housing in our country. Let this be a call for all diasporan Armenians to assist their country through Fuller Center for Housing. There are 35.000 homeless families in our country. 20% of population in Lori region is homeless. Most of the homeless people live in the temporary sheltors, which are called domiks, which do not have any human conditions to live. They live in 18 sq. m. domik, which doesn't have a bathroom and toilet is an outhouse. They don't have a running watter in the house, either.
My family consists of a husband, Arshaluis, a son, Argishti, and a daughter Anna. We live in Vanadzor in a condominium building in the center of town. We were born in Vanadzor and attended teacher's training institute in Vanadzor. I became interested in Fuller and was a volunteer for Habitat and then became a host coordinator for Habitat for four years. When Fuller was developed I started working for them as a program and host coordinator of Lori Region for three years. My husband teaches History, Human Rights, Law Armenian legislation and history of economy at the European Institute in Vanadzor. My mother cooks for the teams when they are here.
