By Natalie Bryant-Rizzieri | Executive Director & Founder
Dear friends and donors,
Some of you have been giving regularly to our work and our home for many years now. You have weathered the seasons of change with us. You have seen us fall down and get back up again. You have seen us welcome new residents into our homes and change based on who they are and what they need.
And some of you give occasionally, when you can, when our residents come to mind and when our work takes a leap forward and you want to help support our new efforts. What a gift each of you is and continues to be to our homes and our residents.
We have an exciting summer ahead of us. A group of professionals from the USA through an organization called "Inclusion Collective" is coming to work at our group homes this summer. They are bringing a speech pathologist, a movement specialist, a trauma therapist, self-advocate specialists, and people who have worked in group home environs for many years.
While they are in Armenia, we will host a disability rights and advocacy event in the city of Yerevan. Our residents will attend and so will organizations from all over the nation of Armenia that work in this sphere. We are hopeful that this opportunity to widen our circle not just with individual residents but with organizations doing important work in Armenia will be a significant shift for our organization.
The spirit of collaboration is, in many ways, affected by the culture wherever we work. And in any country or in any cultural group, there are different barriers to collaboration. But we hope to address our barriers both gently and boldy. We hope to bring people together to work towards a common goal. Things are changing quickly in Armenia right now, due to the shift in political party last May. We want to ride these waves of change and push for greater inclusion, collaboration and protection for people with disabilities and mental illnesses.
Thank you for walking with us in this effort and for being a part of our circle. We could not do this without you.
Warmly,
Natalie Bryant-Rizzieri
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