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BUYING BREAD ON LOAN AND SCHOOLS ON VERGE OF CLOSING: PROBLEMS IN AN ARMENIAN VILLAGE
03.27.2014 12:33 epress.am
Residents of the rural community of Okhtar in Syunik, home to
22 families, buy bread on loan, Okhtar village mayor Vagharshak
Hambartsumyan informed local daily Zhoghovurd. "We have an agreement
with several shops that bring bread to the village daily, and at the
end of the month, villagers pay [off their debt] with their pensions,"
he said.
The newspaper also found out from the village mayor that the village
school will soon close, as the number of students decreases day by
day. And this in that case when students of the five neighboring
villages go to this school. There are barely 25-27 schoolchildren in
all the six villages combined.
"Well since there are no young people in the village, for that reason
there's no marriage either. The last time a child was born in our
village was 10 years ago," said Hambartsumyan.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/03/27/buying-bread-on-loan-and-schools-on-verge-of-closing-problems-in-an-armenian-village.html
03.27.2014 12:33 epress.am
Residents of the rural community of Okhtar in Syunik, home to
22 families, buy bread on loan, Okhtar village mayor Vagharshak
Hambartsumyan informed local daily Zhoghovurd. "We have an agreement
with several shops that bring bread to the village daily, and at the
end of the month, villagers pay [off their debt] with their pensions,"
he said.
The newspaper also found out from the village mayor that the village
school will soon close, as the number of students decreases day by
day. And this in that case when students of the five neighboring
villages go to this school. There are barely 25-27 schoolchildren in
all the six villages combined.
"Well since there are no young people in the village, for that reason
there's no marriage either. The last time a child was born in our
village was 10 years ago," said Hambartsumyan.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/03/27/buying-bread-on-loan-and-schools-on-verge-of-closing-problems-in-an-armenian-village.html