The following video shows how Hayk and Margarita Ohanyan are surviving with their seven young children on the outskirts of Gyumri.

The parents do not work and survive on social assistance from the government. The fuel they burn during the winter months comes from a local garbage dump.

Shirak Center staffers came across the Ohanyan family when they were distributing assistance provided by Aram Mikayelyan from Australia and Elvis Madatyan from America.

Workers at the Shirak Center make daily visits to needy families living in trailers and dilapidated buildings in Gyumri and the local vicinity. They have met many large families like the Ohanyans whose only income is government assistance.