May 19, 2018, Yerevan, Armenia
The U.S. Embassy
and the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia Build a Home
Volunteers from the U.S.
Embassy Helping Hands organization and the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia team
again united their forces to build a home for a family in need. This year the
teams worked in Zovaber village of Gegharkunik region helping the Gabrielyan family.
Having
volunteerism as an ideological basis and being ready to help those in need, the
US Embassy has always combined forces with the Fuller Center for Housing
Armenia becoming the helping hand with the help of which the families have
completed their home construction sooner.
The Galstyans have been waiting for this day very long. For many years
the family had temporarily lived in other people's houses moving from one place
to another, and then moved to live in a temporary shelter (domik). Each day, the family put stone on the stone
but could only build the walls of the house and cover the ceiling.
“Though our entire family works diligently, we hardly earn a living.
The completion of the house construction has become an unachievable dream. My
sons are already adult but they even don’t think of getting married as we don't
have enough place for living. This is a magic that happened to us. First, FCHA’s
support, and now these people help bringing us closer to the long-awaited happy
day. Soon my family will live in a decent home. God’s blessing to you all,’’
said the family father.
The Gabrielyan family
is one of the 10 families of 10 villages in Armenia being assisted through the
generous $100,000 grant awarded to Fuller Center for Housing Armenia by the
Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Foundation.
It is already 10 years, the
Fuller Center for Housing Armenia gives hope, joy
and happiness of having a home to those in need–people who live in domiks,
basements, half-built buildings deprived of basic housing conditions.
Fuller Center for Housing Armenia, a ten-year-old organization,
has been cooperating with the U.S. Embassy for nine years. The same mission of
helping Armenian families to build homes brings them together. Since the
inception of the organization, over 630 families have been supported.
Fuller Center for Housing Armenia is a non-governmental, charitable organization that
supports community development in the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh by
assisting in building and renovating simple, decent and affordable homes, as
well as advocating the right to a decent shelter as a matter of conscience and
action. FCHA provides long-term, interest-free loans to low-income families.
The monthly repayments flow into a Revolving Fund, which is used to help more
families, thereby providing a financial foundation for sustainable community
development. Up to now the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia has assisted over 630
families.
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