Elderly people live in cold and damp domiks for a quarter of a century (video)
The condition of elderly people living alone in ‘domiks,’ wagon-like temporary shelters, in Armenia’s Gyumri city is deteriorating day by day. Most of them live alone or get along with the help of their neighbours. The wagon-like temporary tin houses placed for two-three years have been standing in the city for two and a half decades and most of them are already tumble-down. The elderly people sheltered in them cannot even afford to partially renovate the houses. During their frequent visits to the district, representatives of Gyumri-based Shirak Centre NGO try to persuade the elderly people to resettle in a nursing home but to no avail. Many of them refuse preferring to live in the damp and cold domiks. This time Shirak Centre tells in a video about an elderly woman living in a run-down domik.
