Name: David Babayan
Place if Birth: Yerevan
Date of Birth: 8 March 1979
Favorite Band or Singer: Cristina Aguilera
Favorite Song: “Hurt”
Favorite Song from Paros Chamber Choir Repertoire: Oror (Lullaby) by B.Kanachian
Personal Goal: The happiness of my beloved “half”.
Personal Statement including hobbies, interests, family, etc.:
I like nature, animals, wood engraving, and IT. Whenever possible, I try to follow and study innovations. I like searching, thinking, finding answers on inexplicable occurrences and I appreciate optimism in people.

When I was six years old, I entered the D. Hambardzumyan State Swimming School. Later, I was involved in the teen-age swimming team of the Soviet Union. I was twelve when I ranked first in a competition held in Minsk.

In 1994, I was fifteen with only one year left to finish school, and as a result of a diving accident, I received a spinal cord injury. After spending one and a half years in different hospitals, including IPTRC, I returned home.

My new life with quite limited opportunities made me look for new hobbies. An old keenness for physics made me engage in self-tutoring on this subject and a great desire to advance in this science awoke in me. I was very pleased when after a number of unsuccessful attempts, I made my first audio stereo system by myself. The success caused me to fall in love with this sphere. I consider myself an ardent radio fan, and I enjoy building different schemes through my creative concepts.

Wood engraving is also part of the list of my hobbies. I have a lot of woodworks. One of my wood works, to my great joy, won Grand-Prix in an All-Armenian wood engraving contest organized by Unison NGO in 2005. I became involved in the Paros Chamber Choir three years ago and this played a great role in my life. I made a lot of friends, whom do their job with great love and responsibility. In my opinion, though Paros is an amateur choir, it is far superior to many professional groups.

In addition to my involvement in Paros, I have been also privileged to become part of Unison staff as an author of articles published in Invisible People and as a Web operator. I am very interested in the field of Web design and programming. I created the first Paros website. My objective is to advance in this field. I am also eager to start teaching computer literacy for people with disabilities at the Unison’s new offices.

I am a quiet, friendly (though a little bit secluded) and hard-working person. I like honest people. Life is beautiful, whatever they say. A creative soul will find its right path and a way to self-affirmation. The important thing is to be surrounded with friends and to do your favorite job.