In Gyumri, any change in the social life immediately catches the eye. For more than a year, as city streets are no street children, beggars and idlers adolescents. All this, of course, pleases, but think there is something to …
I remember the terrible days of the earthquake I was struck by the abundance of children and adolescents on the streets of the city: in their eyes were the universal longing and nagging sadness. Then I did not know that the eyes of these children see the world an orphan. The case helped me understand this.
… A boy of about 11 LONG “Trying” to the coffin, finally knocking down the top-most and smallest coffin and dragged him along the ground behind him. Pulled up on his man aged 60, and then they surrounded the people. From the inquiry revealed that the day before the neighbors helped bury their parents, and rescuers got today from the rubble sister: apart from him, there’s no one to bury her. The boy was immediately dressed, warmed, fed, and odernuvshy his man turned to us with a request – to allow him to adopt a boy.Noble master, his father’s five least-known sons, learned a lot, and people willingly gave him their consent.
Orphans of the earthquake to adopt their next of kin, Gyumri family, they took custody of the state, financial and material aid provided all sorts of charities. It seemed that the problem is solved. But somewhere in the mid 90-ies orphans reappeared on the streets of the city, this time as street children and beggars. Staff Inspections juvenile forcibly sent them in Kharberd orphanage, but they again returned to Gyumri – and mostly with the help of their parents and guardians.
Strange, but true: in terms of total unemployment and extreme poverty of their meager salaries in Gyumri is the “paid work”. Neighbor-”beggar” somehow admitted that on weekdays it is not less than 10 thousand drams, and on Saturdays and Sundays, when the halcyon celebrate weddings, baptisms, etc. it to fall to 20 thousand drams.Despite the wealth, she and her daughter live in squalid conditions: begging – it is not only a panacea for ills, but also a way of life. That is why many of the beggars their “day’s takings to” give the family and yourself huddled in basements, unsafe buildings and boilers.
SO, TODAY IN THE STREETS AGAIN NO GYUMRI beggars and street children. However, there is one, but here to determine his “status” rather difficult. In the summer we buried childhood friend and close all the time hovering teenager – has helped ignite the fire for the incense, handed shovels, etc. We stayed at the grave to once again bid farewell to a comrade, and at that time the son of the late beckoned to the boy and invited him to take home with them intact meat and mineral water. While a teenager to put all this in his bag, a young man with our approval poured on the earth spirits, gave the boy 5 thousand drams for services and sent him home. It turned out that the boy twice during the day brings water to the diggers, lives near the cemetery, the family into poverty, and that’s necessary for him thus contain relatives.
According to the head of the department of child protection Marzpetaran Shirak Lusine Ginosyan, they are currently developing mechanisms to improve the social status of the family teenager with him individually psychologist and a teacher – after a course of psychological rehabilitation, he will return to normal life.
Provincial Department of Children’s Rights Protection was established in 2006. Here was the head, teacher, lawyer and psychologist, but the position of social workers and doctors remain vacant. During the past two years, visited the department of 767 people who have received legal, psychological, educational and material assistance. Support staff have virtually all public and private organizations, primarily of city inspection of juvenile (Head – Major Haik Zakarian), as well as individual halcyon.
During this time, DIVISION take stock of more than 260 children left without parental care, 56 of them on the basis of the conclusions are placed in foster homes, and 147 – in a boarding school, etc. However, until a final solution to the problem is still far: Gyumri children from socially disadvantaged families in need of government assistance.Today in Gyumri, four orphanages and a boarding school.Conclusion of the regional department of children’s rights a boarding school has been eliminated for the reason that students are not sleeping in it. Many believe that the city now needs most in day-care centers. But on the whole town – just one state center, while the second operates under the auspices of Caritas, where the only care for children with disabilities.