International and Joint Voluntary Work Camps in Armenia
Tour the world: there's no summit as white as Ararat's
ZVARTNOTS CATHEDRAL
Dates: 31 July - 13 August
Work: World Heritage/ CULT
Location: Zvartnots Cathedral
Accommodation: Guest house on the territory of the Cathedral.
Work: The major objective of the work camp is to preserve this historical site for the future generations, to keep it in the worthy conditions to allow the visitors to be spiritually enriched and to contemplate the beauty.
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Maintenance of the territory
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Learning Armenian national dances, songs
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Cultural program​
SMILE TO TREAT I
Dates: 1-14 July
Work: KIDS/DISA/ENVI
Location: Republican Pediatric Rehabilitation Centre
Accommodation: Separate cottage on the territory of the Reahabiltation Centre
Work: Volunteers's day will begin with environmental work: maintaining the territory, cleaning children's playground from weed and grass, painting and some renovation work. Volunteers also help during specialists during morning therapy in the swimming pool.
After children finish their therapy, volunteers will join them to draw, sculpt, sing and dance, do physical training, play games.
HOPESHINE
Dates: 6-19 August
Work: RENO/ENVI
Location: Yerevan Special School N14
Accommodation: Dormitories of the school.
From 2014-2024 volunteers renovated classrooms, halls, banches.
During the camp children will be on holidays and the volunteers will be alone in the school building.
The aim of this work camp involves renovative tasks including painting work as well as maintenance and improvement of the territory.
Volunteers will stay in the dormitories of the school.
SMILE TO TREAT II
Dates: 15_28 August
Work: KIDS/DISA/ENVI
Location: Republican Pediatric Rehabilitation Centre
Accommodation: Separate cottage​
The aim of this work camp is organization of the leisure time of small number of children with disabilities that receive their treatment in this Centre and environmental work on the territory.
Volunteers will stay in a separate cottage on the territory of the Rehabilitation Centre.
At the end of the camp volunteers and children will organize a farewell concert.
PHYSMATH SCHOOL
Dates: 08-21 August, 2023
Work: RENO/ENVI
Location: The Special Physmath School in Yerevan
Accommodation: Dormitories of the school.
Work: The aim of the work camp is renovation of 2-3 classrooms under supervision of a specialist in the school and maintenance of the territory.
Volunteers organized joint games and activities with the schoolchilren.
In the end, they prepared and held a big concert together with schoolchildren.
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SOS-KINDERDORF Abovyan
Dates: 05 - 18 July, 2019
Work: KIDS/ENVI
Location: SOS Children's Village, Abovyan
Accommodation: Volunteers will live in fomer kindegarten on the territory of the village.
Work: Volunteers did environemtal and renovation work on the territory. They participated in most activities with children, performing variety of different tasks. They also organized workssops like painting, handcrafts, laguagse lessons, dancing and singing.
The main aim of the camp is orgnization of a concert and teh exhibition of works which they presented in the end.
BOTANICAL GARDEN
Dates: 03-16 August, 2019
Work: ENVI/ECO
Location: National Botanical Garden, Yerevan
Accommodation: Separate building on the territroy of the Boatnical Garden.
Work: The main aim of the camp was to perform a variety of environmental maintenance activties, such as taking care of area of the Garden, cleaning the paths, taking out the weeds, cultivating the trees, preparing teh trees for planting, etc.
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The staff of the Botanical Garden made a presentation for volunteers on environment and nature.
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SOS-Kinderdorf Ijevan
Armenian - German HUJ-IJGD
Dates: 12 - 25 June, 2019
Work: KIDS/ENVI
Location: SOS Children's Village, Ijevan
Accommodation: Comfortable cottage on the territoy of the village.
The SOS Children's Village family-like structure is formed by four basic principles: mother, siblings, house and village.
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Work: Volunteers participated in most activties with the children performing a varity of differnt tasks. They organized workshops of painting, sculpturing, handcrafts, dancing, singing, sports, leisure time games.
Study Volunteering Visit
Armenian-Hong Kong HUJ-Voltra
Dates: 14-21 June, 2019
Work: STUDY/ENVI
Location: Hotel in Yerevan
Accommodation: 3 star hotel, 2 people per room with all the facilities in the centre of Yerevan.
Work: Voluntary environmental program in territory of Geghard Monastry and Zvratnots Cathedral. Cleaning the shore of Sevan Lake.
Study part: Study walk through the city. Takking part in making tarditional Armenain bread "lavash" in "tonir" as well as dolma. Armenian lanugage lesson. Teaching various methods of preparing of marinade meat "basturma". Making barbeque at the beach.
Zvartnots Cathedral
Armenian -Hong Kong HUJ- VolTra
Dates: 19-23April, 2019
Work: World Heritage/CULT
Location: Zvartnots Cathedral
Accommodation: Guest house on the territory of the Cathedral.
The workcamp is organized within the frameworks of "World Heritage Volunteers Inititaive" launched by UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS). One of the main goals of the project is to raise awarness about the necessity to protect, preserve and promote cultural and natural heitage in general and the inscribed or potential Wolrd Heritage sites in particular.
SMILE TO TREAT
Armenian-Belgian HUJ-SVI
Dates: 05 - 13 July, 2019
Work: KIDS/DISA/ENVI
Location: Republican Pediatric Rehabilitation Centre
Accommodation: Separate cottage on the territory of the Reahabiltation Centre
Work: The aim of teh workcamp was organization of the leisure time of children with disabilities that receive their treatment in this Centre and environmental work on the territory.
Volunteer's day began with maintaining the territory, cleaning children's playgroud from weeds and grass, painting and some renovation work.
In the evening, they were playing with kids by organizing comeptios, dancing, singing and having fun.
TUMO for ESC volunteers
Dates: 11 June - 05 August, 2019
Work: KIDS/CULT
Location: TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies
Accommodation: Volunteers stayed in their dormitories
Work: The volunteers did administartive, cultural and entertaining work. They were assisting children and solving issues when if they excited.
Volunteers translated lessons for children if the latter did not understand the langauge of the coaches.
They also oragnzied various activties and entertained children with fun games.
ESC volunteers were able to develop their leadrship skills and could practice all the tools they learnt in thier projects.
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HELP FOR CHANGE
Dates: 05-18 August, 2019
Work: KIDS/DISA/ENVI
Location: "Huysi Avan" district
Accommodation: Two-story bulding of the foudation.
Work: Volunteers worked with children from socially vulnerable families living in the vicinity of the Diaconia Charitable Foundation. Inteh morning volunteers were involved in the cleaning works, in the afternoon they organized cultural developement programs such as dancing, handscrfting, sport competitions.
They also got invoved in the Foundation's activties: distribution of food, school supplies, provision of clothing, visting families in different regions of Armenia.
ZVARTNOTS CATHEDRAL
Armenian-Taiwan HUJ-VYA
Dates: 05-18 August, 2019
Work: KIDS/DISA/ENVI
Location: "Huysi Avan" district
Accommodation:
Work: Volunteers worked with children from socially vulnerable families living in the vicinity of the Diaconia Charitable Foundation. Inteh morning volunteers were involved in the cleaning works, in the afternoon they organized cultural developement programs such as dancing, handscrfting, sport competitions.
They also got invoved in the Foundation's activties: distribution of food, school supplies, provision of clothing, visting families in different regions of Aremnia.
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