OREANDA-NEWS. July 8, 2008. VivaCell General Manager Ralph Yirikian participated in the  homeblessing ceremony of the Aslanyan family house, which is the first out of 15 houses sponsored by the company this year. The cermony was held by priest Der Dachat Davidyan. Following the homeblessing ceremony, Ralph Yirikian handed the father of the family Melikset a Bible.  An international volunteer team from New Jersey who have arrived with the Global Builders Program of Fuller Center for Housing also participated in the homeblessing event.
 
The Aslanyans in one of the families who have chosen the hard way of coming back to homeland. Having left their birthplace Javakhq in 2000, Melikset and Yelena came to Armenia wth their 3 children to settle down in their historical homeland. In 2002 they bought land in the village of Arinj and started constructing the house of their own. But because of construction material prices getting higher and having to pay for their children’s education, for more than 5 years they couldn’t finish the construction of their house and had to rent a flat.
 
Thanks to VivaCell and Armenian Habitat the family at last had the opportunity to finish their home and have own corner in their homeland.
 
Back in 2007 thanks to VivaCell 10 families had an oppotunity to move to their simple, decent and affordable houses before the start of frozy Armenian winter and to meet the New Year with rebuilt hope and new dreams.
 
This year also, in line with its CSR committment, VivaCell will help 15 more families in 8 communities of Armenia to complete their half-bult houses and escape from the claws of poverty housing in the regions. Currently these families live in metal containers, unfinished houses, in houses in emergency conditions or in rented houses.
 
VivaCell constantly supports the needy families of Armenia.