On 14 September pupils of high school from the Armenian National Lyceum after Anania Shirakatsy joined the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia in the Aragatsotn region, the village of Irind to help build the home of a low-income family. They worked together with the FCHA Global Builders volunteer team and the FCHA team.
Armenian National Lyceum after Anania Shirakatsy is an institution that deals with talented children, reveals them and organizes their education and upbringing. And this collaboration, which is planned to do on annual basis, became an educating example for the learners. We all want to raise good kids, and part of doing that is giving them real responsibilities above their studies. Children of all ages can benefit from volunteering by giving back to their community. Helping others build their dream home and making difference in their lives becomes a character-building ingredient of their education helping them acknowledge that there is another side of the life where people need our help, and that we don’t need super powers to help them – just willingness.
On 14 September the group of young people from Armenian National Lyceum after Anania Shirakatsy helped build the home of Manoukyan family of four. For a very long time Artavazd Manoukyan, the family father, with his family has been living with his parents, brother’s family and his sister and her child (Artavazd’s sister, Shoushan Manoukyan, was married, but soon after the marriage her husband died and she moved back to her parents’ house with a new born child, Andranik, who is now already a young man).
The house was too small for three growing families there – 11 people in total. In 2008 Artavazd started his own house construction with the help of his brother, father and relatives. Every year he added some more on house construction, but couldn’t complete it because of financial difficulties.
Thanks to the generous supporters they will complete the house by the end of fall.