December 2025 – The Paros Foundation

December 19, 2025

Support the Paros Housing, After-School & Vocational Center

With your support, the Paros Housing, After-School & Vocational Center can be one step closer to being complete! This new building will house a second Debi Arach Children’s Center, a vocational training space, and a new social enterprise—bringing stability, opportunity, and hope to Gyumri’s most vulnerable families. We will also add a fourth floor creating 27 safe, permanent apartments for “domik” families still living in heartbreaking conditions. Funds needed to complete the building’s construction are secured through an anonymous contribution. Now funding is needed to furnish and equip the apartments and the second Debi Arach Children’s Center.

Project Timeline

In the spring of 2022, the Gyumri Municipality proposed giving Paros one of Gyumri’s half-constructed buildings with the purpose of Paros completing the building’s construction and housing “domik” families. In addition to the apartments, the building will allow Paros to open a second Debi Arach Children’s Center, additional vocational training programs and a second social enterprise. Following seismic evaluations, it was determined a fourth floor addition was feasible, creating a total of 27 apartments and expanding this project’s benefit.

The 1988 Spitak Earthquake caused the death of more than 35,000 people and left more than 100,000 people homeless. Armenia’s second largest city, Gyumri, was most affected by the earthquake. In the years that followed, Armenia’s Independence, the Artsakh War and corrupt regional and local officials contributed to a massive housing crisis, the inability to emerge from this housing shortage, and generational poverty in Gyumri. Today, almost 2,000 domiks are still “home” to people in Gyumri.

Concentrated Impact in Gyumri

Through housing initiatives to permanently reduce domik, or container living, afterschool programs that provide enrichment for the future generation, and vocational training that gives people the opportunity to provide, strides are being made to not only move forward, but to thrive forward.

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December 5, 2025

This Month at The Paros Foundation – November 2025

Gathering for a Good Cause
and a Good Time

This month, our community came together in an incredible way. The sold-out Yeraz Blend gathering welcomed 250 supporters for an unforgettable evening, raising $30,000 to propel our Gyumri Paros Housing, After-School & Vocational Center building project forward. In addition, the Paso Wine Weekend brought friends together once again, this time to champion Med-Aid Armenia, ensuring that vital medical support reaches the communities that need it most. Together, you are turning hope into concrete, lasting change.

Year End Campaign – Help Us build Tomorrow
Our year-end campaign is focusing on breaking the cycle of poverty for generations to come. With your support, we are taking a transformative step toward ending the suffering of families still living in heartbreaking “domik” conditions. By adding a fourth floor to our building, we will create 27 safe, permanent apartments, places where parents can breathe easier, children can sleep without fear, and families can finally begin rebuilding their lives with dignity.

But the impact doesn’t end with housing. This expanded building will also become home to a second Debi Arach Children’s Center, offering educational support, emotional care, and a stable community that empowers children to thrive. We are also building a vocational training center and social enterprise, where adults will gain the skills they need to secure stable employment, support their families, and step confidently out of generational poverty. With a recent anonymous contribution, the remaining funds needed to complete the building’s construction is complete. However, there is still more to be done to bring this building to life. Learn more and donate here.

Shgharshik School Gymnasium Renovation
A huge thank you to Arev Gabriel, Paros donor, friend, and the force behind the Shgharshik gym renovation! Arev and her daughter visited the newly completed gym for a joyful ribbon-cutting ceremony, where the community welcomed them with gratitude and pride. We’re deeply thankful to Arev, her family and friends, and our incredible partners at Hoops4Hayastan for making this transformation possible.

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Across Armenia today, thousands of older adults, many of them refugees from Artsakh, are facing the most challenging chapter of their lives.
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By Narine

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December 2, 2025

GIVING TUESDAY Help Us Build Tomorrow 🇦🇲

With your support this Giving Tuesday, the Paros Housing, After-School & Vocational Center can be one step closer to being complete! This new building will house a second Debi Arach Children’s Center, a vocational training space, and a new social enterprise—bringing stability, opportunity, and hope to Gyumri’s most vulnerable families. We will also add a fourth floor creating 27 safe, permanent apartments for “domik” families still living in heartbreaking conditions.