📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Arabkir Medical Center is the largest pediatric structure in Armenia, which realizes large-scale medical activities. The center has outpatient services, hospital wards, dispensary control and rehabilitation services, serving hundreds of thousands of patients annually, the majority of which are children. The complex also provides rehabilitation services in several regions.
The medical center has a many-years’ experience of hosting international volunteers.
The main mission of the volunteers will be to help the hospital school staff with their daily activities, as well as to organize different interesting activities and workshops for children, including art workshops, games, theater, language classes, movie evenings, celebration of different holidays, etc. Children really appreciate the presence of the volunteer
The project is organised by the support the HUJ-Voluntary Service of Armenia. The project will host at least 2 volunteers from HUJ.
Duration of the project is 8-12 months.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be provided with a good accommodation- hotel in the center of Yerevan, for 2 people in each room, with an own bathroom/ toilet. This cozy hotel has a garden and equipped with all the necessary stuff. Its safe and secure. The volunteers will live in the hotel with nearly 12-15 long term HUJ volunteers from different European countries. On every first day of the month the volunteer will receive pocket money and money for food and transportation.
Yerevan is known as one of the safest cities in the world.
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteer will be welcomed at the airport by the mentor and accommodated in the hotel. After arrival the volunteer will have an introduction meeting in the office of HUJ. Together the mentor they will discover the city, the mentor will provide the volunteer with all the necessary information and will be near the volunteer during the whole duration of the project. The volunteer will take part in 2 trainings - on-arrival and mid-term, organised by SALTO.
The volunteer will also have Armenian language classes in a language center twice a week, located not far from the office of HUJ.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: There are no gender, age and other requirements for the selection/recruitment of volunteers. The volunteer should be interested or have some experience in working with children; he/she should be kind, imaginative communicative and reliable. The main criterion for the choice of the volunteer-to-be is their motivation and the activities they have planned for the project.
It’s desirable that the volunteer has concrete interest and motivation, for example, in drawing, dancing, handicrafts, music, teaching skills to be able to organize teaching and and playing groups.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/05/2022
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.