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In pictures | Nowhere else to go: the stories of Yerevan’s homeless

There is one shelter in the city, with a capacity of 100, but it is not enough to house the hundreds living on Yerevan’s streets.

In pictures | Nowhere else to go: the stories of Yerevan’s homeless

There is one shelter in the city, with a capacity of 100, but it is not enough to house the hundreds living on Yerevan’s streets.

‘I don’t want our faces to be labeled as poor and miserable’ — extreme poverty in Armenia

Around a third of Armenians live in poverty, and despite promises from successive governments, the number is not decreasing.

‘I don’t want our faces to be labeled as poor and miserable’ — extreme poverty in Armenia

By Armine Avetisyan

Around a third of Armenians live in poverty, and despite promises from successive governments, the number is not decreasing.