VivaCell-MTS, Fuller Center for Housing build homes in rural areas

VivaCell-MTS, Fuller Center for Housing build homes in rural areas

PanARMENIAN.Net - A project launched by VivaCell-MTS and Fuller Center for Housing Armenia continues helping families with housing needs in ten provinces of Armenia. The leaders and the staff members of the partnering organizations have again voluntarily participated in construction works in the half-built house of the Stepanyan family.

The Stepanyans, who have lived in a metal container for 17 years, are one of the three families supported in Gegharkunik province through the housing project.

"The childhood and the adolescence of my three children passed in a metal container; we have spent terrible winters there where my second son was born. We started building our own house 10 years ago. Without your support, we wouldn't have finished the construction," said the mother of the family, Anie.

“The most important value is the human being. Supporting others in overcoming difficulties is a manifestation of good attitude towards people, the society and the country. All the families who have fulfilled their decades-old dream have obtained more than just an apartment, which is a material good; they have developed confidence in living a future filled with belief, response to others’ concerns, readiness to solve them, and more,” said VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian.

"We cannot express in figures and show the happiness we have had the chance to see in the eyes of our families. All the stories are different; their concerns are the same. The newly-built homes are different, but the happiness they give is the same. We can surely say that we are building more than houses, we build lives," said Fuller Center for Housing Armenia President Ashot Yeghiazaryan.

The heads of the organizations also visited the Hayrapetyan family in the village of Zolakar in the same province, to honor the memory of their son, the 19-year-old Davit, killed during the April war. Their house has been previously renovated through the housing project.

Throughout five years, VivaCell-MTS has invested more than AMD 333 million; as a result the life of 134 families or 672 people has been improved. In 2016, the housing problem of 41 families have been solved; 20 families have renovated their houses and 21 families are finishing the construction of their half-built houses.

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