Going to school in sandals
Support A1+!Resident of Akoro village in Shirak province, Ararat Kirakosyan doesn’t have any money to send two of his four children to school.
The unemployed parents maintian a family with a 41,000 dram subsidy. Two of the children aren’t at the age to go to school, but the parents also can’t send them to kindergarten due to lack of money.
To send their children in clothes and with textbooks in September, the parents were forced to spend the subsidy for food, but that was still not enough. The children’s mother, Angela Apoyan, had asked the school principal to give the children textbooks at a discounted price, but she was denied after the principal said that the school already had too many children from socially disadvantaged families.
Besides textbooks, the Kirakosyans also have to pay for notebooks that are designed for the humanitarian and natural science subjects. In addition, they also have to buy clothes for physical education and other accessories. The parents have no other choice but to ask for loans.
