Qnarik Vardanyan
57 years old, Tailor
“I am Qnarik Vardanyan. I live in Yerevan with my husband and son. My husband is from Artsakh, Talish. He took part in the first Nagorno-Karabakh war. It left its negative trace in every Armenian family and in my family too. I do not want to describe my feelings about the war in detail, I only want to say that we experienced days of anxiety and stress, days when we thanked God for every dawn and every second we lived” — Qnarik has been working at “Sewing Hope for Armenia” as a seamstress since the beginning of our journey.
A woman with such bright eyes, who finds positivity in everything, whose life is full of difficulties, but who is an example of hope and optimism. “Qnarik is the happiness of our team,” — her colleagues say.
Among my relatives and my husband’s relatives were many war veterans. Sadly, some of them did not return home. On September 27, one of our relatives called us and told us about the war. Hell in the 90’s came back again to take more casualties and young lives. Before the war we looked at life differently, now I appreciate every second of my life.
My spouse and I have health issues, I have had a 3rd degree disability since 2007, so it was very difficult for me to find work, but there was and is a need to survive and buy medicine.
My only son is 17 years old. I was 40 when he was born. Now I’m doing everything I can to help him reach his goal of becoming a soccer player.
Before working at “Sewing Hope for Armenia”, I tried to find a job that was decent and compatible with my health problems, but I couldn’t find anything.