A love towards one’s motherland, the lovely job of painting, and the endless new ideas that stem from the desire to do better for one’s community - all have united a group of creative painters living near the border village of Koghb, in Armenia. Giving free classes in art schools, summer camp for painters, and engaging art lovers from Koghb and the neighboring communities, are only a few of the initiatives done by these young people.

32-year-old Sergey Epremyan lives in the village of Chapar, in Karabakh. Despite his age, he has already built his own house, and is a father of 3 children. Sergey also lectures at school, helps other villagers to have their own beehives and is involved in civic work, among other duties.

For more than 200 years, people living in Vardenik village in Armenia are taking their animals to the Az’zner mountains, staying there from early spring until mid-autumn and produce dairy products from pure milk. Life in the mountains is wild; there is no electricity and telecommunication.

In 2014, ISIS massacred thousands of Yezidis in Iraq and 430 thousand people became displaced. According to "Sinjar" NGO, 5,000 Yezidi women and girls are still in captivity. During the massacre, 2 yezidi families fled to Armenia and, with the help of the local Yezidi community, established themselves there. 17-year-old Fadil Bshar is one of them. The Sinjar events took a lot from him: his dream to continue his teaching job, his girlfriend and two sisters, his friends and his home...

When Lilit Melikyan was 5, her parents took her to national dance classes. Though not the dance itself, rather the clothes and the environment, left a permanent mark in her memory and formed the passion for her current occupation. Lilit Melikyan is a clothes designer who tries to give a new breath to the national garment by making it interesting for youth to wear and to learn about.

Domestic violence is one of Armenia's direst social problems, yet it remains on the margins of national discourse - legislation has so far failed to address the issue and a widespread code of silence perpetuates the situation. Romania-born and US-raised Maro Matosian has taken the plight of abused women close to her heart. In 1991, Maro moved to Yerevan and became one of the pioneers in providing assistance to women victim of violence. She heads the Women's Support Centre, a project the US-Armenian Tufenkian Foundation set up in 2010, and runs a shelter which supports women victims of physical and psychological abuse as well as their children.

The bells of St. Astvatsatsin announce the Sunday service in Heshtia, an Armenian-Catholics populated village in  southwestern Georgia. In the churchyard Father Anton Antonyan welcomes devotees, as he has done for the last 20 years.  In 1937 Father Anton, Heshtia’s last priest during the Soviet Union, died and the church fell into oblivion for half a century - it was ransacked, sacred items were stolen, and it was turned into a storage space. The bells stopped chiming. With the Glasnost of the late 1980s the churches’ gates reopened also for the estimated community of around 35000 Catholic Armenians. Poland-born Father Joseph Kornashevski was the first priest to serve in the post-Soviet era in Heshtia.  The Armenian Catholic Church belongs to the group of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches and, unlike the Roman Catholic Church, its priests are allowed to marry and have a family. Father Anton is married and has two sons who both serve in the church. The 43-year-old took the votes in his early twenties - he is the 12th priest in his family. For him it is a duty to continue his family’s tradition, and remain faithful to his, and his community’s, ancestors.

Vazgen Galstyan’s bold ideas outsize the town he hails from. Originally from Jermuk, a mountain spa town of 4,700 in southern Armenia, Galstyan moved to Yerevan to study and ended up settling there. Exposed to the buzz of the capital, though, he often wondered what prevented towns like his to have some of the simple, yet creative initiatives that Yerevan boasts.