Haik Kazarian is founder of the Transparent Armenia charitable foundation, which distributes boxes of aid like these to the thousands of people displaced by last year's Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.It’s a sunny spring day in the town of Metsamor, about 45 minutes west of Armenia’s capital, Yerevan.
Before he could make the move for good though, Mr. Kazarian wanted to have employment secured. “I didn’t want to come back and just take somebody’s job,” he says. That opportunity came in January 2018. “I was already working full-time from home in Canada. I decided it would be stupid to just sit at home when I could spend six times less money doing it in Armenia. So I bought a plane ticket with a return trip six months later, to give myself half a year to see if it works out.