Every Child Needs a Family

Around 4900 children in Armenia are still in orphanages and special boarding schools, away from their families. 80 percent of them have at least one parent and were placed there due to socio-economic hardships their families are facing and good conditions that orphanages offer for children.

• It is imperative to ensure that every child enjoys the right to live in a family. For that purpose, funds allocated for maintenance of orphanages should be rather directed to support socially vulnerable families or expansion of foster care, while orphanages and other care institutions where children live should be transformed into family support centers.