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    `ONCE I HAD TWO DWELLING PLACES WHEREAS AT PRESENT I HAVE NOTHING'
    [12:17 pm] 15 February, 2007

    It is already 10 years 46-year-old Ruzanna has been
    living outdoors. Currently she spends her time in the
    environs of Shengavit metro station and sleeps in one
    of the nearby booths.

    `One I had two dwelling places. I presented one of
    them to the sufferers of the Spitak earthquake and
    sold the other. And now I sleep in the streets', says
    Ruzanna. She has got 8-year-old daughter who is
    presently in an orphanage. `She is the joy of my life,
    and they deprived me of her', says the mother in
    despair. He has tried many times to take the child
    back but her request has been turned down on the
    motivation that she has got neither a job nor a
    dwelling place.

    The representative of the Social Welfare Ministry told
    A1+ that the mother can fetch her daughter any moment
    unless she is deprived of parental rights. Only then
    Ruzanna confessed that the main reason she cannot take
    her daughter is that she is mentally handicapped. In
    answer to our question why she doesn't work, Ruzanna
    said, `I have tried to find a job a few times, but
    nobody seems to be eager to employ someone in such
    dirty clothes'.

    Ruzanna feeds on the bread given by the passers-by and
    shop-assistants. She has asked various political
    figures for help but all her efforts were in vain.
    `They only give promises and never keep them', says
    Ruzzana and adds, `they wanted to send me to a nursing
    home but I objected'.

    Ruzanna's only wish is to be together with her
    daughter which unfortunately is impossible.
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