CASP – FAR

[CASP]: After Tragedy, CASP Helps a Single Mother to Get By image

Tigran and Hamlet live with their mother Zarine in Syunik Province. Hamlet is eight years old and Tigran is 13. Hamlet loves sports; his favorite is boxing. He also likes to paint in his free time. Tigran loves math, playing chess, and wants to become an economist.

[CASP]: CASP Support Helps One Child to Better Cope with his Grief image

After his father was killed by sniper fire in the Four-Day War of April 2016, 10-year-old Rafayel Danielyan could not cope. “Rafayel was traumatized. He isolated himself from family and peers, and wouldn’t talk to anyone for a while,” said his grandma, Nona, who spent six months in the hospital for heart issues after her son was killed.

[CASP]: CASP Support Helps Five Talented Children image

Karine, Syuzanna, Lyova, Suren and Nare live with their mother Lusine Kustuzyan in Gyumri. Unemployed, she has to manage to keep the family afloat on $300 per month—the total of her state poverty allowance and the children’s benefits. Karine, 14, is in the 9th grade. She likes to read; her favorite book is the novel “The Grandmother” by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova. Karine also loves to paint. Susanne, 13, is in the 8th grade. Karine and Syuzanna attend dance classes. This year, they took first place in an international dance competition in Georgia. They have also won prizes during their participation in various dance competitions in Armenia. Ten-year-old Lyova is a very active 4th grader. Along with school, he ...

[CASP]: On its 20th Anniversary, CASP Distributes Stipends to Nearly 550 Children in Need image

This year, Astghik was welcomed into the Children of Armenia Sponsorship Program (CASP) as one of its 83 new beneficiaries thanks to the enormous efforts of the Women’s Guild Central Council of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. CASP helps orphans and children of single mothers with their living expenses through annual stipends.

[CASP]: CASP Helps the Family of a Fallen Soldier image

After twenty years of being happily married Nelly Hayrapetyan, 40, lost her beloved husband, Rudik, in the Four-Days War of April 2016. Since then, to relieve her grief, she has engrossed herself in her work as a stylist at a local salon.

[CASP]: CASP Helps to Support a Young Girl’s Budding Interest in Art image

Nine-year-old Varsine Mkrtchyan dreams of becoming an artist like her dad who had a talent for painting. Although she can draw decently, she is still trying to build stronger skills through the painting classes that she’s attended for the past four years.

[CASP]: Springtime Round of CASP Stipends are Distributed to Vulnerable Children and Families image

Roughly 460 orphans and children of single-mothers living in six regions of Armenia and Javakhk recently received their financial stipends for spring 2018 through the Children of Armenia Sponsorship Program (CASP).

[CASP]: CASP Supports the Children of Javakhk image

FAR’s Children of Armenia Sponsorship Program (CASP) has contributed to the betterment of vulnerable families in Armenia and Javakhk, Georgia through the provision of financial stipends since 2000.

[CASP]: CASP Stipend Helps Family Afford Surgeries image

Gor Bidandunyan, 7, is a very gifted student. Every day, he brings home gold stars on his work as a testimony to his good performance at school. He likes drawing, soccer, and is a fan of Real Madrid soccer club, especially Ronaldo, one of the team’s most famous players. Gor wants to be like his older brother, Sergey, 9, who is in the 3rd grade and does well at both school and sports. Sergey has been training in karate for four years now, and now holds a purple belt and several medals and certificates. He wants to be a banker when he grows up.

[CASP]: CASP Scholarship Helps Couple to Raise their Granddaughter image

Seven-year-old Lilia Ghazaryan comes from Karahunj Village in Syunik Province. Four years ago, she lost her family—mother, father, brother, sister, aunt and cousin—in a car accident and now lives with her grandparents.

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