Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: Group home support for Armenian orphans with disabilities and/or mental illness
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“Warm Hearth is not a project; it’s a home,” says founder, “that’s sustained by the faces of our residents and the harsh fate that awaited them if something was not done.” We serve Armenian orphans with disabilities who are destined for the psychiatric institutions. We believe they deserve basic human rights and this means a loving home and a life of dignity. Our group homes are long-term and address the challenge of having a disability in Armenia.
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We operate a safe & loving group home for residents with disabilities, which reduces abuses of human rights in psychiatric institutions & increases rights through integration. Our staff provides care that encourages residents toward independence. |
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The project will provide a home to 16 residents by 2008, allowing them to live outside institutions. It’s a model for community-based care and a pilot project for moving away from institutionalization. |
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Life here is very good. It’s wonderful; the days are wonderful & we pass time wonderfully. I feel free here. It’s restful here & calm. There are no problems here that I need to think about.
- Gayane, Beneficiary and resident of Warm Hearth Group Home
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