The Boshyan Family of Shnogh: Getting By On $185 a Month

13:03, July 13, 2012

Artashes Boshyan and his wife Aida are trying to raise their five young children in the Lori village of Shnogh.

Neither parent works. The family makes due on the monthly 50,000 AMD assistance allowance given by the state and the 23,000 pension that Artashes' mother receives.

One of their children, 5 year-old Gor, doesn't speak and the family hasn't been financially able to take him for a medical exam.

Some of the kids use the father's last name of Boshyan while the other two use the last name of their mother, Vardanyan. The parents never had a civil marriage.

"They told us that if we get our civil marriage papers, our assistance allowance will be increased," Says Aida.  Read more... (546 words)

Armenian News