It was for the first time that the 19-year-old girl prepared pizza by herself. On the weekend Sima Gharaghazaryan, with her conventional mother (the social worker of the ‘family’) ran to a shop. They bought the necessary things and food for the week and returned home. Sunday evening was passed eating pizza with the whole family – in a family for which the word and the occasion has special meaning.

Four months ago Sima got the apartment as a provision of her “graduation” from a Vanadzor orphanage. Now, she and others are learning to live an independent life in a sort of “half-way” house preparing for their adult lives.