«When you creating puting your heart and love into your work, the freedom becomes your work, and as a result it is pleasant when people like your work.  I hope to continue working with ceramics when I go out of prison», says minor Vahe Ghaltakchyan.

During two years of his imprisonment he managed to produce 35-40 pieces of ceramics. He has to spent another year and 7 months in prison, but he hope to be release sooner through getting amnesty.

Today Vahe's ceramical plates and jugs were demonstrated at the State Museum of Folk Creative Works.  His works were demonstrated at the exhibition of carved wood and ceramics organized by the Ministry of Culture's Special Creative Centre for Juvenile Offenders. 

The  Special Creative Centre for Juvenile Offenders was created in 2005.  Its goal is to teach imprisoned minors arts and traditional handicrafts. The Centre does not have a building in Yerevan.  The juvenile criminal punishment institution in Abovyan provided the Centre with a former boiler house, which needs renovation.

The Centre was created as a result of 8 month work of the Trtou cultural NGO established by a designer Temik Khalapyan. This is the first case, when the RA government demonstrated state approach and appraising the started by the NGO work, created the "Special Creative Centre for Juvenile Offenders" under the Ministry of Culture state non-commercial organization.

Temik Khalapyan is convinced that the Centre will foster opportunities of juvenile becoming adults after their release to find a job and put in good order their lives.  «Imagine what would happen in our country if a boy who grew up in a prison without loving his country goes to army.  I will live for 100 years and will fight that the Centre works regardless state support,» says Khalapyana.  He adds that people becomes orphanes not because of the state but because of their mothers, and it would be good if people who think of these children also support them financially, buying their works and the money earned at the exhibition-sake would go to the renovation of the building.