YEREVAN. – The housing issue of 22 children from Armenia’s Zatik orphanage must be solved until 2013 or else they will end up on streets, the director of Zatik orphanage Ashot Mnatsakanyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am adding that at the beginning of the year Zatik orphanage transformed into a children’s Support and Protection Center and is operating under new rules.

According to the director, currently the center is functioning in three directions: orphanage, day care center and center of temporary care. Currently there are 90 children registered at the center, 22 of which are in the orphanage. However, from 2014 the center will function only as a Support center for children.

The director excluded the option that any of the children will be left on the streets. Everything must be done in order to provide housing for the children.

4 girls will be taken under the care of the church, some children will be adopted by families and the others will turn 18 by that time and leave the orphanage.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, Zatik Orphanage is to be turned into a Children’s Protection Center. The reason for such a change is the lack of children.