Forever Homes for Abandoned Armenians

Springtime is finally here and with it comes the life-giving news of the last year at Warm Hearth.  

I just returned from Armenia, from our home full of the reassuring comforts of daily routines, full of clay and paints, laughter and tears, feasts and carpet looms and stuffed animals, care-taking and cleaning, meals and stacks of dishes, birthday celebrations and trips to the market and museum, comforting and arguing, singing and giving, learning and toasting and reciting poems, falling and dancing, holding and forgiving. 

It was more beauty than a person can almost bear to sit around the feast table and listen to the residents—all of them—sing carol after carol. Most of you know how much we have endured and how long we have persevered to get two of our residents, Anna and Sassoon, home from institutions. And there they were, seated with the others, toasting to the New Year. 

Some of us—residents, staff and visitors alike—were so moved that our faces were streaked with tears. I wondered if for the residents they were tears of joy or if so much goodness brought into starker relief some of the heartaches of the past. I will probably never know. 

For my own part, I was reminded of the simple fact that this is why we do what we do: so that these dear people can gather around a table and break bread daily and have someone to console them when they are in need. Thank you for protecting them, for believing that peace should also be theirs. 

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Thank you for taking part in our work.  Thank you for believing in our residents. 

Sincerely yours,