Over the entire four years of the Artsakh Liberation War, when the orphaned, often homeless children of more than 7,000 martyred freedom fighters and countless civilian casualties were in dire need of immediate assistance, the Armenian Relief Society (ARS), steeled with its decades-long experience in benevolent activity, as always, at this historic hour was there to assist. At the close of the armed conflict, at the beginning of the reconstruction years, the Artsakh Ministry of Education, in 1998, offered the ARS a war-damaged building in Stepanakert to repair and use as a refuge for needy families and children left homeless by the ravages of war.
In April of the same year, in that renovated building, the ARS “Soseh Kindergarten opened its doors to 87 children, laying the foundations of the future Artsakh-wide network of similar kindergartens. The school named in memory of resilient warrior, Soseh “Mayrigâ€
