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An
actress
and a theater
critic,
connected
by the theater—and
failing
eyesight.
Enida Agasiyava
and Vilik
Hovhannesyan
never met.
Yet, with
the theater
as the common
thread,
they have
followed
similar
paths
throughout
each of
their 78
years... 
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Arshaluis
Nerkarayan was
just a month old
when his parents,
Gayaneh Matevosyan
and Arthur Nerkararyan,
were told that
he has a congenital
cataract in both
eyes and could
not see. Gayaneh
and Arthur immediately
decided that they
would do everything
in their power... |
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An
eye prosthesis
for 25 year-old
Christine Hajinyan.
A
first look
at
Christine Hajinyan,
25, does not
disclose
anything unusual
about her. A
few
minutes into
the
conversation,
Christine reveals
one devastating
story after
another... |
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Lucik
Yeritsyan lives
with her family
in a house on the
outskirts of Artsvaberd,
a small village
in the Tavush marz.
The house has one
living room, one
bedroom, a kitchen
and a corridor
where Lucik lives.
The wooden stove
is in the corridor
next to Lucik’s
bed... |
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Boys
loose
sight
in
land
mine
accidents.
Blindness
and
Social
Exclusion
as
a
result
of
tragic
land
mine
explosions,
the
lives
of
three
boys
from
three
different
communities
across
Nagorno-Karabakh
changed
dramatically
in
1993... |
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Manya
Sargsyan was cleaning
up after dinner
on a September
evening in 2004
when a “horrible
blow” shook the
adjacent room,
leaving her 15-year-old
son Pavel covered
in blood and screaming... |
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Following
Armenia’s
long,
hard,
cold
winter
the
Mobile
Eye
Hospital
emerges
from
hibernation
(Yerevan
garage)
and
embarks
on
a
10-month
journey
to
conduct
eye
screenings
and
treat
patients
throughout
the
marzes... |
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The
AECP expanded
its holiday
screening
program this
year, visiting
three orphanages
and two boarding
schools in
Yerevan.
The AECP
Mobile Eye
Hospital
(MOH) team
revisited
old friends
at the Nork
and Zatik
orphanages... |
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Summer
Camp. “Jambar”
in Armenian.
It means just about
the same thing
the world ‘round.
There are no international
boundaries to the
exhilaration children
feel when, at the
end of a June day,
they hear that
last school bell
signifying that
school is out... |
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Anna
and
Sona
Shahverdyan
lost
their
mother
to
breast
cancer
four
years
ago. Since
then,
life
has changed
drastically
for
the
two
sisters.
Deprived
of
maternal
love,
care
and
affection,
the
sisters
shared
another common
difficulty—Strabismus... |
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Zmrukht
Shant
Solomon
Allah
Verdi
Movsisyan
resides
in
the
Zatik
orphanage
with
her
sister.
Her
night
blindness,
which
she
has
suffered
from
since
infancy,
was uncovered
during
an
AECP
eye
screening
at
the
orphanage... |
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While
eyes and vision
rank among the
most important
health issues in
children, most
children in Armenia
begin school without
an eye exam. So
many of these “simple,”
preventative measures—that
we take for granted
in the U.S.—are
almost unheard
of in Armenia... |
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“I
will see
light, what
else to wish?
There is
hardly anything
more than
that.” —Taisa
Chirkova,
an 86-year-old
woman living
at the Nork
Nursing Home
in Yerevan.
The Armenian
EyeCare Project
visited two
nursing homes
in Yerevan
earlier this
year... |
