{"id":50225,"date":"2025-11-10T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu4armenia.eu\/?p=50225"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:15:43","slug":"hope-is-growing-like-seeds-in-armenia-inna-anush-and-genadis-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eu4armenia.eu\/hy\/hope-is-growing-like-seeds-in-armenia-inna-anush-and-genadis-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope is growing like seeds in Armenia: Inna, Anush, and Genadi\u2019s story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2023, the\u00a0escalation between Azerbaijan and Karabakh<\/strong>\u00a0and the subsequent ceasefire afterwards led to the exodus of more than 100.000 Karabakh people to Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiming to provide humanitarian support to those who have found safety in Armenia, the European Union (EU) swiftly provided more than \u20ac12 million<\/strong> to help the displaced and vulnerable. Demonstrating continued solidarity, the EU also enhanced its operations in Armenia with an extra \u20ac5.5 million in 2024 and a further \u20ac3 million in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to this EU humanitarian assistance, displaced people from Karabakh, like Inna<\/strong>, Anush<\/strong>, and Genadi<\/strong>, receive the necessary support they need to get by. This will help them start to build a new life with dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Our house was destroyed\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

43-year-old Inna<\/strong> and her family fled Karabakh to Armenia to find safety after the 2023 conflicts. Today, Inna<\/strong>\u2019s family of 4 shares a rented house with her mother and her sister\u2019s family in Ashtarak. Displacement and survival are not new to them\u2014they had already endured it once before, during the 2020 conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recalling the day her family left their hometown, Inna<\/strong> says: \u2018When the clashes grew intense, we hid in the basement. Then, we realised we could not stay. We left without even locking the door. After the shelling, we watched our home being destroyed before our eyes. Panic was everywhere.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pillows, blankets, and a foldable bed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When they arrived in Armenia, rebuilding life from nothing was a huge challenge. Overcoming hardship demands extraordinary resilience, and their new reality was a world away from the life they once knew in Karabakh. <\/strong>Covering basic needs, the rent, and the expenses, and ensuring a stable future seemed out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inna in her bedroom, grateful for the assistance she received, which allows her family to sleep with dignity.
\u00a9 European Union, 2024 (photographer: Vasileios Pristouris)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With EU humanitarian support,\u00a0People in Need<\/strong>\u00a0(PIN) provides the family with pillows, blankets, and a foldable bed. \u2018This support has been very helpful. My daughter sleeps on the foldable bed. It is very valuable to have a nice, peaceful sleep,\u2019\u00a0Inna\u00a0<\/strong>says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inna and Lia, showing their garden covered with flowers and vegetables. \u2018We planted the seeds we brought from our homeland. Watching them grow makes me so happy. I can smell the country I’ve been estranged from.\u2019 Inna says.
\u00a9 European Union, 2024 (photographer: Vasileios Pristouris)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Food dryer gives a new hope<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anush<\/strong> is a displaced woman from Karabakh and has built a new life in Vahramaberd, in Armenia, with her husband and 6 children. They confronted many challenges during their daily life. However, they showed great resilience to move on. Thanks to the EU humanitarian support, she received a voucher for equipment. With this, she bought a food dryer, a pot, a mixer, and some other kitchen items. While explaining that these vouchers are vital for them to select and purchase their real needs, she says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I bought this food dryer, and I am trying to dry some different fruits. I hope that one day I can sell them, and this will become my income and cover some of my daily needs.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anush, a 38-year-old mother, shows the food dryer she bought thanks to the equipment voucher she received from the EU.
\u00a9 PIN, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anush proudly offers us a dried apricot she had prepared with her new food dryer.
\u00a9 PIN, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Briquettes to keep warm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Genadi<\/strong>\u2019s family managed to escape the war with their tractor and moved to Hovuni, in Armenia, after the 2023 conflicts. Now, the tractor barely provides for the entire family and helps the local communities in their area with their gardening. In winter, they experienced below 30 degrees, with nothing for heating once they arrived. With the EU support, his family received eco-friendly briquettes to ease the harsh weather conditions. They received 1 tonne of these briquettes for a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eco-friendly briquettes help families keep warm and survive the winter.
\u00a9 PIN, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

‘Without this support, we would be in a very dire situation. It helped keep us warm during the harsh winter.\u2019\u00a0Genadi\u00a0says.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Genadi\u2019s family talks with the EU and PIN staff in front of their house.
\u00a9 European Union, 2025 (photographer: Bahar Bak\u0131r Yurdakul)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Supported over 40,000 people<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since 2023, the EU\u2019s humanitarian partner PIN and its local partner Mission Armenia have reached more than 40,000 people in need:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Story by\u00a0Bahar Bakir Yurdakul<\/strong>, Information and Communication Assistant in T\u00fcrkiye, EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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