THEY LONG FOR THEIR RELATIVES
Support A1+!Over 246 elderly people have found lodgings in a retirement home in Chorrord Village. The state budget daily allots 2450 drams for each of them. A total of 200580 drams are earmarked to the retirement home a month.
The retirement home is getting ready for the New Year party. A Christmas tree is being erected in the canteen.
On the eve of New Year some dwellers recall the years of their childhood and youth, others wish success and happiness to their children and future generations.
“I wish lasting peace all over the world. I wish our living conditioned bettered and Armenians working overseas were back,” 77-year-old Grandfather Hovhannes said.
He even recited a poem written by him.
Hovhannes doesn’t remember his childhood very well as “it passed in constant turmoil and painstaking work.” Then the Great Patriotic War broke out and his parents left for the battlefield.
“We lived with fear in our hearts. Then I grew up, got higher education and started a family. And now? It is already six years I am here. I am no better off than at the start. Why should I here? ”
Nevertheless, Hovhannes did not complain of his children. Just on the contrary, he thanked God for his children. “Whenever I look back I become convinced that as a parent I have provided my children with everything I could. Why should I ask them for something in return? They hardly make both ends meet,” he says.
Grandpa Hovhannes married Mrs. Tamara in the retirement home. They live a happy life together enjoying every ounce of sunny days.
83-year-old Levon Movsissian also got married in the retirement home. He feels well as he is always surrounded with love and care. He only longs for his grandchildren.
“I wish people lived in harmony and peace. I wish youth lived better,” he says.
