Almost 100 elderly people receive hot meals, juice and sweets three days a week in Masis Soup Kitchen.
With the support of the Swiss Red Cross, the Armenian Red Cross Society launched the "Food for 4 regions of Armenia" program in 2017, in Lori, Shirak, Ararat and Armavir regions, aiming to provide 80 single elderly people in each region with food packages. Beneficiaries were selected based on clearly defined needs and criteria. The work was carried out in close cooperation with the local self-government bodies, especially with the social affairs departments of the regional administrations and municipalities.
In the city of Masis in Ararat region, the program was implemented through the Soup Kitchen.
73-year-old grandpa Armo is meticulous. He says after his wife’s death in 2017 he doesn’t like and doesn’t try every food prepared by everyone. But the meals of the Armenain Red Cross are so tasty and nutritious that he does not miss those days. He, in fact, looks forward to those days, to the interactions around a friendly table with peers in the Kitchen. Given the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions he takes the food home. He himself used to live alone before the escalation of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Now the family of his son, who moved from Hadrut, has joined him. This food is sufficient for the two grandchildren as well. “If the meals were not tasty and nutritious, I definitely wouldn't come here. I would not come if the staff were not clean and friendly. There is so much love and warmth here that it is worth coming just for that,” Grandpa Armo says.
