Kristen Anais Bayrakdarian

Kristen Anais Bayrakdarian

Kristen Anais Bayrakdarian is a Depi Hayk/Birthright Armenia volunteer from New York. Anais studies Political Science and English at Williams College in Massachusetts, but is currently living and working in Armenia.

A Hidden Minority: Children With Disabilities in Armenia

A Hidden Minority: Children With Disabilities in Armenia

“There are no invalids in the USSR!” This much heard expression exemplifies how people with disabilities were stigmatized in the Soviet Union. How pervasive is the exclusion of people with disabilities in post-Soviet Armenia? Anais Bayrakdarian talks to experts working in the field and writes that the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable.