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    Shoemaker's Guests Cannot Afford to Buy New Pairs of Shoes

    http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/2718-en557
    Saturday, 15 December 2012 12:06



    `We hardly have any orders nowadays, and we hardly manage to make our
    living with the money we earn. I often do good to people and repair
    their shoes for free. What shall I do if my customers are mainly the
    people who can't afford to buy new pairs of shoes?' says one of the
    shoemakers of Stepanakert.

    86-year-old Michael Danielyan's repair shop is in Azatamartikneri
    street. He has been working as a shoemaker since 1943, first he was an
    apprentice, then he studied in Baku and later moved to Turkmenistan
    where he worked for 33 years. Michael Danielyan returned to his
    homeland during the years of the Artsakh movement.
    The shoemaker who has 6 children today lives alone but says that the
    children help him. `I get a pension of 50 thousand drams but my
    children help me as nowadays one can hardly make his living with this
    work,' he admits.

    Mr. Michael states that the prices on shoe repairing have increased
    for the last few years /from 500 to 2000 drams/, as the necessary
    accessories nearly twice grew in prices as well.
    `There are cases when I several times repair the same shoes for free
    as one should do good to people if he is able to. Sometimes children
    visit my shop with the request of repairing their shoes so as their
    parents would know nothing about it,' Mr. Michael says.

    The same does the shoemaker whose repair shop is in Admiral Isakov
    street and who did not want to mention his name. He worked at the shoe
    factory of Stepanakert for 43 years and he says that now shoemaking
    has turned into a hobby as it secures no profits any more.

    `Very few people take their shoes to my repair shop and they are
    mainly those who cannot afford to buy a new pair. Most of us have
    become richer and buy new ones when the old pair is damaged,' he says
    and adds that he has no opportunity to take up another business
    because of his venerable age.

    Garnik Alexanyan



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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