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A Resurgent Monument to the Living Memory of Soseh Mairig

by Contributor
June 26, 2017
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The ARS Stepanekert Soseh Kindergarten building
The ARS Stepanekert Soseh Kindergarten building

Nearly three fateful decades have gone by since the authorities of the newly liberated Artsakh Republic — recovering from an epic liberation war fought against a merciless enemy – offered the Armenian Relief Society a war-ravaged building, to be refurbished and used as refuge for newly orphaned children and youngsters of destitute families. Less than a year later, the Stepanakert Soseh Kindergarten/nursery was functioning with 85 pupils between the ages of three and six.

Thus, in 1998, in this barely-renovated building, the foundations were being laid of today’s globally known ARS Soseh Kindergartens network thriving on native liberated soil. And now, after nineteen years of dedicated work, on the very same plot of that recycled Stepanakert building, the totally redesigned and rebuilt multi-story ARS Soseh Kidergarten/Youth Center will be officially declared open on September 6th of this year – as a resurgent monument to the indomitable spirit of our people and a living memorial to the immortal legacy of Soseh Mairik.

The ARS Stepanakert Soseh Kindergarten
The ARS Stepanakert Soseh Kindergarten

There is a more than 19-year-long history of relentless, dedicated effort behind today’s shining reality of the Soseh Kindergartens. Presently, the Armenian Relief Society has 8 Soseh Kindergartens across the territory of Artsakh Republic, one in each of the following locations: Stepanakert, Shoushi, Togh, Metz Tagher, Ashan, Akanaberd, Qaregah, and Khndzristan; eight radiant establishments, whose tallest, brightest lighthouse will be the very first, newly rebuilt ARS Soseh Kindergarten/Youth Center of Stepanakert, rich with its history-based, storm-tossed location and its ARS linage, extending to the present and reaching out for a bright future.

To complete this brief narrative, let us mention also, that two years ago, right after the ARS 71st International Convention, on Oct. 11, 2015, took place the ceremony of laying the foundations of the present Soseh Kindergarten/Youth Center building in Stepanakert with great pomp and circumstance, in the presence of a large, enthusiastic attendance of local and organizational personalities, ARS members — both local and visiting – and numerous parents and pupils. From Oct.  2015 to the end of March, 2016, the construction work – now in its final phase — had continued unabated, only to be interrupted as a consequence of April’s Azeri armed forces’ 4-day, brutal, but utterly failed attempt of wide-scale invasion.

The students at the Soseh Kindergarten
The students at the Soseh Kindergarten

One can’t help but admire the indomitable faith, the creative and industrious spirit of our people, which has resulted in countless temples of knowledge and literature, of song and prayer, whose hallowed remains, scattered all across our vast, historic patrimony, inspire and remind us, that we are builders, a bastion against destructive forces of all kinds that have come and gone. It is that spirit that moves us to continue our mission to add yet one more center of enlightenment, no matter how modest, to our millennial harvest of wisdom.

Soon, on Wednesday, September 6, 2017, the first-born — now rebuilt and enhanced — ARS Soseh Kindergarten will officially open its doors in Stepanakert — on historic Armenian soil, beneath the free skies of our Homeland.

On this magnificent occasion, we have heartfelt words of gratitude to all who did their utmost, offering generously their precious time, energy, and all necessary material and spiritual support needed for a most worthy project of love and genuine care for the physical and spiritual welfare of our children — the future builders of our nation’s future. Without that precious support this magnificent project could not have been realized.

We also offer our sincere wishes of fruitful, successful accomplishments to present and future staffs of the ARS Soseh Kindergarten/Youth Center of Stepanakert to whose devoted care are trusted the spiritual and intellectual growth of the children of invincible Artsakh.

As always, the Armenian Relief Society, with its world-wide entities, true to its sacred mission, shall always be standing by them in the performance of their tasks.

 

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