A NEW SOCIAL HOUSE IS TO BE BUILT IN GYUMRI

ARMENPRESS
July 14, 2009

YEREVAN, JULY 14, ARMENPRESS: In 2010 a new Social House is intended
to be built for the homeless lonely pensioners, as well as for refugee
families in Gyumri with the support of the Swiss government. Anahit
Gevorgyan, the Deputy Head of the department of the issues of
the old and disabled people of RA Ministry of Labor and Social
Affairs, told Armenpress that the project on the construction of
the Social House is in the discussion phase and is implemented by
the "Swiss Organization of Armenian Development" in collaboration
with the Ministry. At present a range of issues on the number of the
beneficiaries and the territory are being specified. By the initial
data the Social House will be accommodated for about 100 people, the
dwellings will be given to the most needy homeless families and lonely
pensioners by a contract only on a right for dwell. A. Gevorgyan noted
that in case the settled family doesn’t implement its obligations,
the organization is authorized to annul the contract. A suchlike
social house was built in the Republic on the initiative of the
Swiss government in Goris, where there are 24 dwellings, as well as
in Yerevan with 28 dwellings. "We greatly need such social houses,
the demand for them is great, as there is a great number of socially
insecure homeless people. A commission has been set up for the purpose
of the selection of such people for settling in the new Social House,
with the participation of the Ministry, Goris Governor’s Office and the
representatives of the "Swiss Organization of Armenian Development".