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40 years of silence
At the age of 14 the girl was raped by her cousin, but instead of getting support by her relatives she was moved to a mental clinic a year later. “My mother told me to keep silent; others did not believe my words”.
Read more“When they see an educated girl in Yazidi community, they praise her, taking pride in her achievements, but they never allow their own daughters to study”: Zuzan, “the brave”, Khuboyan.
“In our family, they attach great importance to women’s education. My grandmother is a well-known poet and my mother is an avid reader. I do believe that future belongs to nations where mothers are readers,” says Zuzan.
Read moreՄի՛ լռիր / Do not be silent
Վերջին 10 տարիներին ընտանեկան բռնության հետևանքով մահացել է ավելի քան 100 կին։ Նրանցից շատերը կփրկվեին, եթե շրջապատը չլիներ անտարբեր։ Մի՛ եղիր անտարբեր: Մի՛ լռիր:
More than a 100 women have been killed in domestic violence over the last 10 years in Armenia. Most of them would have survived if people around them did not remain silent. Indifference kills.
Read more“I don’t carry hate in my heart. I am a winner, because I was able to forgive.” Nelly Shahbazyan: breaking the chains of orphan mindset to pave her way to happiness
“I was only seven years old, when my sister and I were placed in a children’s home in Vanadzor. My grandmother took us there, as she had promised my mother not to give us to any relative after her death,” she recalls.
Read more“I was 14 when my father turned me into the streets, and I am grateful to him for that.” Varda Avetisyan: from cutting a divisive figure to becoming a game- changing restaurateur
“I’ve always felt like an orphan, a parentless child, and I had to stand up for myself, shape myself up, so that whenever I failed I would know it was my fault,” says Varda Avetisyan, a restaurateur and founder of Kchuch, Losh and Tava restaurants of authentic Armenian cuisine in Dilijan.
Read moreGetting a Job Saved my Life. Mariam Melikyan: a Lifelong Journey from Violence to Happiness in Everlasting Silence
“Daily beatings and violence had become a part of our married life. He would beat me at the slightest pretext or for nothing at all. He beat me out from jealousy, whenever he was frustrated, or whenever he felt like doing it. When he beat me in front our daughter, it was the last straw for me. I just moved to my parents’ house together with my child,” says Mariam Melikyan.
Read more“I could not live with the realization of what he had done to children.” Nana Manucharyan: from Stigma to Resilience of Burnt Clay
“The moment I learnt the truth, I just lost any interest in life. I wished I hadn’t known anything at all,” says Nana Manucharyan, who was only 21 when she discovered the ugly, devastating reality of her marriage: her husband was a child abuser.
Read more“Your life is in your hands, you can change it. Nothing is impossible – I changed my life” — Lena Harutyunyan: from despair to inspirer
“My son was 1.5 year when I first ran into the reality. We discovered he had autism. A big test was awaiting me in this life. I was disappointed with the world, life, relatives, friends, my own mother and father, even myself,” Lena Harutyunyan says, and her eyes fill with tears.
Read more“You will go through all this, nobody can make decisions for you”Ani Haykuni, The Reborn
“After cancer, I feel like I was reborn. An Ani was created who knows her way, her goal, her mission better and has a better esteem of her energy, power and abilities,” says Ani Haykuni and smiles.
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