March 21, 2023

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"[EXCERPT] Anna is a 35-year-old woman from Martakert, who lost her job during the blockade. She lives with her mother Anahit, an elderly woman with a disability, a 10-year-old son David with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 5-year-old daughter Margarita. As Anna lost her husband to the 2020 war and her father 12 years ago, she has to sustain her family on her own. However, the mining company that she worked at before the blockade, Base Metals, had to shut down until further notice under the pressure from Azerbaijan, leaving Anna in a difficult financial and mental state. Now, she can no longer afford the necessary medication for her mother and has to substitute it with alternative medicines, which negatively affects the health state of her mother. She cannot continue to pay for the special treatment for her son either in the absence of which he starts to develop aggressive neurotic patterns and experiences frequent panic attacks."