Homeland’s Defender program to assist servicemen with disabilities launches

Homeland’s Defender program aimed at involving people who received disability during the military service in state bodies for work launches.

“These people have full right not only be respected and loved but also continue being part of our social, political and economic life,” Armenia’s president Armen Sarkissian told the reporters today after award ceremony in Presidential residence on the occasion of 27th anniversary of the Armenian Army.

He said that the presidential office has assumed a moral commitment to accept 2-3 servicemen with disabilities to work.

“They are bright personalities and with corresponding assistance and educational program may return to life, become full personalities and not only get pensions but feel self-confidence, solve issues,” the president said.

The president stressed that in the sidelines of the program one of the heroes of the April war has already passed to work in the presidential residence.

“The first swallow is Gor Darmanyan with disability. He works in the president’s apparatus,” the president said, expressing hope that other structures as well start such a process.