When you hear the word Darbnik, what does it tell you? Think about it? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? If I were asked this question earlier in 2012, I would probably answer that Darbnik sounds like a name the owner gave to a clothing shop for babies and pregnant women.
In reality, Darbnik is a small village in Ararat Marz with a little over 1000 inhabitants, mainly refugees from Azerbaijan, Iraq and Syria.
Darbnik is quiet and peaceful: a few small houses, a kindergarten and a school. No traffic noise. A dormitory was built there to provide shelter to refugees
Sometimes you can see kindergarten children walking in line with their teachers, passing through the football field, with weirdly tall grass. Someone should have cut the grass.
Or, you can see the newly built children's playground, where three or four children are enjoying themselves. Their mothers and grandmothers are sitting under the tree, on the bench and talking...
It is extremely hot in summers, no wonder there are such few people out.
This is how Darbnik looks like most of the time. However, when there is special occasion, everyone is out.
This time, the occasion was World Refugee Day, which was organized by "Mission Armenia" CNGO.
We were there too.
Although we all got tan, because there were no shades where we could hide from the sun, we had a pretty good time. Some of my Diversity kids were there too.
A team from Yerevan joined us, so have a peaceful game with the local teenagers. They were excited to find out which team was stronger. Yerevan lost.
Probably one of the touching moments was watching a beneficiaries of "Mission Armenia"- a group of elderly people performing to Armenian national music.
In reality, Darbnik is a small village in Ararat Marz with a little over 1000 inhabitants, mainly refugees from Azerbaijan, Iraq and Syria.
Darbnik is quiet and peaceful: a few small houses, a kindergarten and a school. No traffic noise. A dormitory was built there to provide shelter to refugees
Sometimes you can see kindergarten children walking in line with their teachers, passing through the football field, with weirdly tall grass. Someone should have cut the grass.
Or, you can see the newly built children's playground, where three or four children are enjoying themselves. Their mothers and grandmothers are sitting under the tree, on the bench and talking...
It is extremely hot in summers, no wonder there are such few people out.
This is how Darbnik looks like most of the time. However, when there is special occasion, everyone is out.
This time, the occasion was World Refugee Day, which was organized by "Mission Armenia" CNGO.
We were there too.
Although we all got tan, because there were no shades where we could hide from the sun, we had a pretty good time. Some of my Diversity kids were there too.
A team from Yerevan joined us, so have a peaceful game with the local teenagers. They were excited to find out which team was stronger. Yerevan lost.
Probably one of the touching moments was watching a beneficiaries of "Mission Armenia"- a group of elderly people performing to Armenian national music.
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| warming up before the game, and by that I mean my Diversity kids were playing volleyball with the locals while the football teams were changing. |
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| The Diversity kids were drawing slogans on the paper, to cheer their team when the football game starts |
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| Let the game begin! |
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