05/10/2026
This Mother’s Day, we honor the women who carried entire worlds through war, displacement, grief, and survival.
During and after the Artsakh war, Project Mayreeg became one of Kooyrigs’ most intimate and powerful initiatives. We worked alongside pregnant women and new mothers navigating impossible realities: giving birth during bombardments in underground shelters, fleeing their homes with newborns in their arms, mourning loved ones while caring for children, and rebuilding normalcy in spite of deep fear and uncertainty.
Many of the women in these photographs were raising families while displaced from Artsakh. Some had lost husbands, homes, income, or access to medical care. Others were giving birth in bomb shelters, navigating postpartum recovery in overcrowded temporary housing, battling health complications while isolated from their communities and support systems.
Through Project Mayreeg, we provided postpartum care items, hygiene supplies, food, baby necessities, medical support and ongoing inclusive care to mothers affected by war and displacement across Artsakh and Armenia. More importantly, the project recognized how critical mothers are to the fabric of society, and how often they are overlooked within humanitarian and social welfare systems.
Motherhood, especially in times of conflict, is deeply complex. Many experienced creation, grief, tenderness, and fear all at once while the floor dropped from beneath them. They had no choice but to keep persevering.
Today, we honor them. 🩷 Happy Mother’s Day to our Mayreegs from all of us at Kooyrigs. We’ll always have your back.
