Ending the Era of Orphanages in Armenia

Ending the Era of Orphanages in Armenia


Why the Diaspora Should Help the Process of De-Institutionalization

In his childhood poems, my father grappled with the absence of his mother. He lost his parents by the age of eight, and spent years in an Aleppo orphanage, until he graduated. More than anything, he wanted his mother’s arms, and her hug. The poems are moving, and acutely painful.