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In two weeks, nearly 100,000 Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh, including many children. On site, psychologists try to help them.
To Yerevan (Armenia)there are ten of them crammed into an apartment. Two weeks after the Azerbaijani offensive on the Nagorno-Karabakha family from the enclave has found refuge in the Armenian capital. The memory of the battles still remains vivid, especially in the minds of children. “I came back fromschool, […] then I played a little. They started shooting,” says a boy.
6,000 children in school
A psychologist visits refugee families daily. The association to which she belongs also takes care of providing them with basic foodstuffs. It is the psychological after-effects which are the most urgent to treat. “The children we meet need adults to give back hope“, noted Lilith Hayrapetyana psychologist. More than 6,000 children arrived from Nagorno-Karabakh are now enrolled in Armenian schools.