Every day, 70-year-old Sevak Vardanyan hops on his bicycle and pedals 12 km back and forth to get to  FAR’s Nishan and Margrit Atinizian Senior Center from Akhuryan village of Shirak province. This has been his daily route for a few months now, ever since he discovered the soup kitchen and found a new sense of purpose in his otherwise lonely days.  FAR’s Nishan and Margrit Atinizian Senior Center in Gyumri serves hot and nutritious meals five days a week to around 150 elde

For 70-year-old Sveta Zaryan, the FAR Soup Kitchen initially seemed like a place where the underprivileged stood in line for a warm,...

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Ashot Hayrapetyan, 66, doesn’t think his life is particularly remarkable. He describes it as ordinary, even monotonous. But there was a...

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The first time Anna stepped into FAR’s Byureghavan soup kitchen , she was carrying her unborn son Hrayr, now a lively 7-year-old. She...