Mer Hooys’ mission is to provide opportunities to young adult women from disadvantaged lifestyles in Armenia so they may achieve a productive and secure future. Our program provides qualified teenage girls from state-run orphanages with a comfortable and safe home, a family environment, psychological support, and education in languages, social skills, community relations, arts, religion, life skills, and job skills training. Without programs like Mer Hooys, girls who age-out of their childhood orphanage homes in Armenia have little hope for a bright future. Instead, they inevitably face lives that put them at serious risk for their health, and safety.