Christmas miracles
It was in 1988 when Hakob sold the area where he should build his home; bought arm left his wife and 2 daughters with his parents and left for Gharabagh to protect the borders of his homeland. He returned in 1994 and shared his parents’ 30sq/m home with his brother’s family and worked hard to earn money and to get area build his home. One of his friends suggested Aslanyan family his half-built house with the terms to pay step by step. In 1998 the family had to move into this half-built house without any conditions. Year by year, little by little Hakob was trying to finish the house construction but with the earning of driver it was impossible to care of the family expenses as well as to finish the house.
The two eldest girls are already students of the Yerevan State University and are high achievers. These children grown up on the concrete, the place where there is no sanitation, no kitchen conditions - just walls. In 2008 when the youngest son was born Hakob managed to finish a room by selling dairy cattle for the little boy could spend the frosty winter in a little bit more save conditions.
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Dreams come true
About 19 years Senik and Karine Karapetyans with their 4 children were forced to move from place to place having no permanent place to live, struggling against winter cold, daily fighting for their children’s health and praying for the next day is not that harsh. Just a year ago the family could not even imagine that soon will have their own home, that their children will also wake up under a safe roof, and that the Christmas of 2010 will become a celebration of realization of their dream. The Best Birthday For The Volunteer Just think about celebrating your birthday by helping a family in need and build a house with them and with your colleagues. This is how Izabella Sargsyan from KPMG Armenia celebrated her birthday on September 17. When the organization was planning to join and build with the Fuller Center she was more than happy to land a hand to a family in need on her own birthday. From KPMG Armenia 7 employees with Nina Soghoyan, the head of Social Corporate Responsibility department joined their efforts to help Karapetyan family to fill the basement of their new house. Karapetyan family of 5 lives in Haytagh village with their extended family, total 12 people in a small house. The kids are growing, the space is tight… 
One More Family Celebrated The Home Dedication in The Frame of Millard Fuller Legacy Build
16 Families Who Have Been Waiting for More Than 20 Years Are Now Close to Their Dream The temporary housing district formed in Vanadzor after the 1988 earthquake turned into permanent shelter for many families who survived the disaster that killed some 27,000 people. Many children grew up in the temporary shelters and now their children are growing up in the same conditions… Ghazaryan Family
After the earthquake in 1988, they lost all their hopes to get a house from the government. The life went on harder. They have 4 children; 2 daughters and twin brothers. It was very difficult for the family to live in the miserable conditions of the domik with 6 members but still they were forced to spend there 20 years of their life. In 2003 their elder daughter got married. The children became adults and the domik was becoming more and more unbearable. In 2000, they found that Garnik has got a stomach ulcer and could not work for quite a long time. Susanna didn’t work, either. Their only income was the welfare from the government, which was hardly buying food for the day. In 2004 Susanna found a job. She is a ticket-collector at the local Culture Palace. In 2006 Garnik got well and started to help his parents in the village with farming, which was also bringing income. The family hopes not to have any health problems in their new safe and healthy home. Nazlukhanyan Family
Those were difficult times. They twice moved from one rented house to another. However, they lived with the hope, that they will get apartment soon. They were following the construction of the house which had been building at that time, but was stopped soon after the earthquake in 1988. Soon after the earthquake they moved to the domik, as they had a handicapped child, who would not be able to escape from a building if there happened to be more shakings. But it did not save their son. In 1993 their birth-handicapped son passed away. Thus the family lived in the domik for already 21 years and was homeless for 33 years. It became a great happiness for them to be involved into this project, that after they were selected, they kept visiting our office for several times and asked if they are really selected. And still cannot believe their happiness.
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On November 14, 2009 employees of Fuller Center for Housing Armenia, Tufenkian Foundation,
Today was a very special day for Torosyan family. They were celebrating their home dedication with a Global Builders team, arrived to Armenia to help those in housing need, with local volunteers. What is the most important that the family is one of the 100 families around the world who also became a today homeowners in the framework of Milard Fuller Legacy Build project.
After Susanna and Garnik married in 1981 and moved to Vanadzor they rented apartment to live in and were listed to get a home at the factory where Garnik had been working. 
Mikayel and Lida never had their own house since their marriage in 1976. Mickayel had 2 brothers living in his parents’ house in the village of Debed when he married. As he was the eldest among them, with the Armenian tradition, he had to leave his parents’ house. He moved with his family to Vanadzor and started a new life in a rented house. Mickayel found a job at the yarn factory. Later he was listed to get a house from the government, like most of the families at that time. 
