InternationalWomen of Vanand
Published: Friday December 04, 2009
Ophelia Ovsanna, l., and Manig Gevorgian. Elaine Krikorian
Manig Gevorgian and Tamara Martirosyan both work at the school in Vanand. Manig married late and had her daughter, Ophelia Ovsanna, in her mid-forties, shortly after which her husband passed away. She lives near the school. She wishes everyone could come to her home and see the conditions she and her daughter are living in. "You can guess based on the state of the school, how everything is broken and the walls are cracked and weather-worn, what my house looks like," Manig told the Armenian Reporter.
Manig made sure that Ophelia Ovsanna picked out two items to take home, an Armenian magazine and an Armenian dictionary to help her with her schoolwork. Manig took her turn at the sheet of paper Artbridge had mounted that requested to know "the last book you've read"; the title she wrote down was a romance novel.
Tamara Martirosyan stated that she did not have an interest in reading and that the exhibition should be for the children of the school; when she was given a thin paperback cookbook on ways of cooking chicken her face lit up and she quickly went off to show the book to Manig and her grandchildren.
