If you ask 5-year old Nare, a graduate of the Karakert Child and Family Center, why she attended the center for two years, she will answer without hesitation and to the point: “because it’s interesting at the center.” The details will come in enthusiastically immediately after, about how they would exercise, paint, put on a puppet show, and make craft animals out of different materials.

Norik, Flora, and Sofi from Alaverdi were among the very first students at the SMART Center in Lori, back when the current curriculum wasn’t even in place yet.