“ONCE I HAD TWO DWELLING PLACES WHEREAS AT PRESENT I HAVE NOTHING”
Support A1+!It is already 10 years 46-year-old Ruzanna has been living outdoors. Currently she spends her time in the environs of Shengavit metro station and sleeps in one of the nearby booths.
“One I had two dwelling places. I presented one of them to the sufferers of the Spitak earthquake and sold the other. And now I sleep in the streets”, says Ruzanna. She has got 8-year-old daughter who is presently in an orphanage. “She is the joy of my life, and they deprived me of her”, says the mother in despair. He has tried many times to take the child back but her request has been turned down on the motivation that she has got neither a job nor a dwelling place.
The representative of the Social Welfare Ministry told A1+ that the mother can fetch her daughter any moment unless she is deprived of parental rights. Only then Ruzanna confessed that the main reason she cannot take her daughter is that she is mentally handicapped. In answer to our question why she doesn’t work, Ruzanna said, “I have tried to find a job a few times, but nobody seems to be eager to employ someone in such dirty clothes”.
Ruzanna feeds on the bread given by the passers-by and shop-assistants. She has asked various political figures for help but all her efforts were in vain. “They only give promises and never keep them”, says Ruzzana and adds, “they wanted to send me to a nursing home but I objected”.
Ruzanna’s only wish is to be together with her daughter which unfortunately is impossible.
