Project Duration:  01.01.2002 — ongoing

Beneficiaries

  • Single elderly over 65 years of age
  • Single persons with disabilities over 18 years of age

Beneficiary  criteria

  • Living below the poverty line
  • Having multi-health problems
  • Being lonely
  • Being disabled
  • Bad social conditions
  • Bad housing conditions – temporary houses in the suburbs of the cities.

Regions

  • Shirak, Gyumri
  • Lori, Tashir, Vanadzor
  • Gegharkunik, Gavar
  • Ararat, Artashat

Services

  • Social work
  • Social care
  • Primary health care
  • Social counseling և assistance
  • Provision of food, medicine, hygiene items
  • Psychological support
  • Integration into public life
  • Organizing a series of “Patient Home Care” courses for nursing students in Gyumri, Vanadzor and Gavar State Medical Colleges.

Partners:  Caritas Germany, Caritas SpainItalian Bishops’ Conference, Government of the Republic of Armenia, CNEWA , Austrian Tyrol Government

Total budget for one year: about 400,000 Euros

Project Managers  

Hermine Gasparyan (Gyumri, Vanadzor)

Tigranuhi Tarakhchyan (Gavar)

Armine Yepremyan (Artashat)