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WE WERE ADVISED NOT TO APPLY TO THE MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING MINISTRY
Monday, 06 May 2013 14:23
The Hovsepyans fear that the walls of their dining room will not stand
any more, they will split and the family will have to continue living
in a ramshackle house.
"My husband and I have been building this house since our marriage
but in the recent years the walls of the house have begun cracing
especially those of the dining room. There is a 6-centimetre crack
in the wall and it still keeps growing in size," Iskuhi Hovsepyan,
mother of 4 children states regretfully.
The Hovsepyans live in the village of Mkhitarashen, Askeran region.
The eldest daughter Arina left school last year, the other three
children still go to school. Father Levon is a former liberty soldier
who, as he says, participated in a number of military operations
including the liberation of Shoushi.
Today the head of the family is a craftsman who is hardly able to earn
the family's living and has no money for the repair of the developing
cracks in the house walls.
As we were told the family had applied to the Municipal Engineering
Ministry for the repair of the cracks the previous year, they sent
an expert who fastened a band to the crack and ordered them to apply
when the band was torn.
The band got torn long ago, moreover the split keeps growing in size
but they have not applied to the Ministry yet. Mrs. Iskuhi explains,
"After we had applied to the Ministry of Municipal Engineering we also
applied the regional administration of Askeran on a relative's advice
where we were told that there were a great number of poor condition
houses of this kind in turn and we were hardly going to succeed.
That's why we have lost any hope and have not applied to the Ministry
so far. Yet we only hope for the help of the government as there is
no other way out."
Tatevik Khachatryan http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/4345-en988
Monday, 06 May 2013 14:23
The Hovsepyans fear that the walls of their dining room will not stand
any more, they will split and the family will have to continue living
in a ramshackle house.
"My husband and I have been building this house since our marriage
but in the recent years the walls of the house have begun cracing
especially those of the dining room. There is a 6-centimetre crack
in the wall and it still keeps growing in size," Iskuhi Hovsepyan,
mother of 4 children states regretfully.
The Hovsepyans live in the village of Mkhitarashen, Askeran region.
The eldest daughter Arina left school last year, the other three
children still go to school. Father Levon is a former liberty soldier
who, as he says, participated in a number of military operations
including the liberation of Shoushi.
Today the head of the family is a craftsman who is hardly able to earn
the family's living and has no money for the repair of the developing
cracks in the house walls.
As we were told the family had applied to the Municipal Engineering
Ministry for the repair of the cracks the previous year, they sent
an expert who fastened a band to the crack and ordered them to apply
when the band was torn.
The band got torn long ago, moreover the split keeps growing in size
but they have not applied to the Ministry yet. Mrs. Iskuhi explains,
"After we had applied to the Ministry of Municipal Engineering we also
applied the regional administration of Askeran on a relative's advice
where we were told that there were a great number of poor condition
houses of this kind in turn and we were hardly going to succeed.
That's why we have lost any hope and have not applied to the Ministry
so far. Yet we only hope for the help of the government as there is
no other way out."
Tatevik Khachatryan http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/4345-en988