Hostel Yerevan

Not Hotel Yerevan. In the year that a new 5 star hotel was opened in Yerevan, with more than $18 million in money from the US Government and World Bank, we have people living in scenes like this.

HETQ Online has a new photostory about Living in a Yerevan Squat.

A Birthday Party below the Poverty Line: On 1 October 2004, Urma Grigorian turned 14. Her grandmother donated her meagre pension to pay for her birthday party and Hetq joined in on the fun. Apart from the bottles of Sprite and Fanta that Hetq's photographer took along with him, however, a pension in Armenia does not buy much. For Urma's birthday, there were no presents and not even a cake.

Posted by Matt on October 05, 2004 | TrackBack | Email to a friend