Villagers buy bread on credit
Tumanian Town of Lori Marz today faces great problems connected with unemployment.
During the Soviet era Tumanian's fire-proof material factory employed 700 people and the knitting factory - 300 people. The factories had even vacancies which were filled by residents of the neighboring villages.
"Today, 100 people are employed in the town hall, school and nursery school and another 20 work in the factory," says Mayor Levon Zavarian.
Some 30 families leave the village in the 90s. Many have left abroad in search of better living conditions.
Local residents are depressed. They learn about the birth and death of their close relatives on the telephone or by cassettes. "Our children are not with us. We have worked all our lives to build a house but today we live by begging," they say.
Villagers usually buy everything on credit as they don't have cash with them. They cannot even soil the earth as there are no ground areas in the town.
Villagers' last hope is the rehabilitation of the fire-proof material factory.
