SEVEN BOARDING INSTITUTIONS OF CHILDREN’S CARE AND PROTECTION TO
OPERATE FROM SEPTEMBER IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The status of the special schools of
Kapan Number 1, Gyumri Number 2, Vanadzor Number 2, Dilijan, and
Byureghavan for children, who are orphans and deprived of parental
care, as well as School 10 named after Petros Durian in Yerevan and
School 1 for children, who are mentally handicapped, will be changed in
the new educational year.

According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by
Lena Hayrapetian, the Head of the Department for Family, Women’s, and
Children’s Problems of the RA Ministry of Labour and Social Issues,
these schools will operate as boarding institutions of children’s care
and protection since September.

According to Lena Hayrapetian, the decision concerning the change of
the status of the above-mentioned schools is connected with the fact
that very often children from socially unprovided families, who have no
need of special education, attend these schools.

L. Hayrapetian mentioned that children, in particular, will get free
food, prepare their lessons, and attend the nearest schools of general
education. As for the defined holidays, they should, certainly, spend
them all with their families.