“I would miss much in this life if I didn’t have a sponsor who always writes to me and cares about me,” says Arthur, 13, from Tavush. “Sometimes, when I am sad, I open the letters of my sponsor and read them over again,” he says. Arthur often goes to the neighboring forest to collect blackberries and sell them. The only income of his six-member family is the 27.000 AMD ($70) monthly pension Arthur’s grandmother receives.