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BREAKING THE POVERTY CYCLEONE CHILD AT A TIME OUR PROGRAMS EDUCATION NUTRITION HUMANITARIAN HEALTH OUR STORY Focus on Children Now was founded in 2006 after a chance encounter between a tourist family the Amirians and a couple serving as American Peace Corps Volunteers PCV in Armenia led to a conversation about the condition of schools in the villages of Armenia. With an invitation to visit the special school the volunteers were stationed at in Gavar a town located in the Gegharkunik province the tourist family found themselves hailing a taxi to venture an hour out of Yerevan the capital city on a lovely October day. After a long and bumpy car ride the taxi driver finally stopped in front of a large battered building. As the family stepped out of the car they instantly felt the difference in forecast from Yerevan to Gavar.