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 Spain, Italian 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)