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THE GIRL WITH AMAZING DESTINY
Karine Ionesyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/society/view/28608
Society - Friday, 11 January 2013, 00:21
I had to pretend being a boy to find a job because then you don't have
a lot of problems. I wore my hair short, behaved like a boy.Lilit
Sargsyan, 22, dreams of being a sculptor and earning a lot of money
to afford to build a large house where parentless children like her
will live. It will not be called an orphanage, it will be called House,
she says. Lilit was taken to orphanage when she was barely a month. At
the age of 5 she returned to her family of criminals trading in drugs,
and all kinds of people visited their apartment every day.
She had to work since the age of 8 to earn her and her family's
leaving, sold popcorn, balloons, watermelons, worked in a flour mill,
car wash, sold handmade things, sculptures made by her, worked in a
bakery, made tattoos, taught taekwondo and drawing in the orphanage.
She continues teaching, makes handmade things, is the night warden at
the student dormitory where she lives. "At the age of 13 I started
working in construction sites, I had to pretend being a boy to find
a job because then you don't have a lot of problems. I wore my hair
short, behaved like a boy. I preferred pretending a boy than having
people feel sorry for me or beg or take the easiest way for lots
of girls and become a prostitute. I earned less money because I was
young, sometimes I was paid 500 drams but then I became more skilled,
and I was appreciated," Lilit recalls. Since employers did not always
pay her well, she started thinking about self-employment. "I saved
money and bought a popcorn machine, and I was my boss, my employees
were people in need like me, we sold and ate. Then I started making
sculptures, took them to different shops, some people agreed to sell
my works," Lilit says. Lilit has finished the State College of Fine
Arts In Honor of Panos Terlemezyan with the help of benefactors. Now
she studies at Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship.
She is the only girl in the department of sculpture. She has decided
to emigrate after graduation but she will come back because her mother
is buried in Armenia. She dreams of her own studio and family.
Karine Ionesyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/society/view/28608
Society - Friday, 11 January 2013, 00:21
I had to pretend being a boy to find a job because then you don't have
a lot of problems. I wore my hair short, behaved like a boy.Lilit
Sargsyan, 22, dreams of being a sculptor and earning a lot of money
to afford to build a large house where parentless children like her
will live. It will not be called an orphanage, it will be called House,
she says. Lilit was taken to orphanage when she was barely a month. At
the age of 5 she returned to her family of criminals trading in drugs,
and all kinds of people visited their apartment every day.
She had to work since the age of 8 to earn her and her family's
leaving, sold popcorn, balloons, watermelons, worked in a flour mill,
car wash, sold handmade things, sculptures made by her, worked in a
bakery, made tattoos, taught taekwondo and drawing in the orphanage.
She continues teaching, makes handmade things, is the night warden at
the student dormitory where she lives. "At the age of 13 I started
working in construction sites, I had to pretend being a boy to find
a job because then you don't have a lot of problems. I wore my hair
short, behaved like a boy. I preferred pretending a boy than having
people feel sorry for me or beg or take the easiest way for lots
of girls and become a prostitute. I earned less money because I was
young, sometimes I was paid 500 drams but then I became more skilled,
and I was appreciated," Lilit recalls. Since employers did not always
pay her well, she started thinking about self-employment. "I saved
money and bought a popcorn machine, and I was my boss, my employees
were people in need like me, we sold and ate. Then I started making
sculptures, took them to different shops, some people agreed to sell
my works," Lilit says. Lilit has finished the State College of Fine
Arts In Honor of Panos Terlemezyan with the help of benefactors. Now
she studies at Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship.
She is the only girl in the department of sculpture. She has decided
to emigrate after graduation but she will come back because her mother
is buried in Armenia. She dreams of her own studio and family.