Help for Change

Name: Help for Change
Start: 2026-06-01
End: 2028-12-31
Location: Yerevan, Armenia

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Armenia Culture Environment Children Teenagers Culture Environment +3 Fixed dates

About the project

Help for Change

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Diaconia Charitable Fund is an Armenian NGO established in 1988 by the Armenian Relief Society in Germany to provide humanitarian aid following the devastating earthquake in Armenia. Today, the Fund s Village of Hope carries out social projects, including building homes for families and implementing educational and development initiatives to support socially vulnerable families.

💼 What the programme involves

During the work camp, volunteers will work with children from socially vulnerable families living in the vicinity of the Diaconia Charitable Fund. The main activities include: -In the morning, volunteers will be involved in maintenance work and territory cleanup;-After lunch, they will organize cultural development programs for children from socially vulnerable families, such as singing, dancing, and painting. Volunteers will teach their national songs and dances;-Volunteers will also be involved in the organization s activities: distribution of food, school supplies, and provision of clothing; -Volunteers are encouraged to organize recreational activities for children, such as interactive games, creative workshops, outdoor play, or board games that stimulate both learning and social interaction;-At the end of the work camp volunteers and children will organize a final concert-performance.Volunteers will receive certificates at the end of the work camp.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Do not worry about sleeping bags, as you will stay in buildings or cottages of the hosting organizations, where beds, mattresses and bedding packs will be provided.In Armenian work camps, discipline and organization are important. Making beds and keeping rooms neat and clean daily is mandatory. Volunteers will stay in the building of the Diaconia Charitable Fund, with rooms organized separately for boys and girls.

🍲 Food

Volunteers will prepare food themselves on the principle of duty. You will have the opportunity to taste a variety of traditional Armenian dishes, such as dolma, khorovats (barbecue), kebab, khashlama, as well as the incomparable fruits of the Ararat Valley apricots, grapes, peaches, apples, as well as berries and vegetables.

📍 About the location

Armenia is called an open-air museum. You will have many interesting excursions and visits to historical monuments and museums, organized during the work camp.Excursions to the following sites will be arranged at the discretion of the work camp, and all visits will be free of charge. The proposed list of excursions includes: Echmiadzin Mother Cathedral, Zvartnots Cathedral ruins, Garni Pagan Temple, Geghard Monastery Complex (with a World Heritage Initiative program), Lake Sevan (including a barbecue on the beach). Volunteers will also visit Matenadaran repository of ancient manuscripts, History Museum of Armenia or National Gallery of Armenia, museum of the famous film director Sergei Parajanov, and Vernissage, a large open-air Armenian souvenir market.Different games, Armenian dance lessons, and language lessons will also be organized in the work camps. Leisure activities for joint work camps are individual.

⚠️ Requirements

It is very important to bring board games, songbooks, and children s songs to use when working with children and for performances or concerts organized on the last day of the work camp.During the work camp, volunteers will organize Intercultural Days, where each participant will present his or her country. Please bring photos, booklets describing your country, recipes of national dishes, products and spices, and national songs.You are welcome to bring musical instruments, prepare a list of your favorite national songs and music, and, of course, bring your high spirit and creativity.

🤝 Meeting point

Armenian volunteers of your work camp will meet you at the airport in case your arrival time is beetween 8:00 and 0:00 and will take you to the work camp. Please note that if you arrive before the official start date of the work camp, the Armenian volunteers will not be able to pick you up.

If your arrival time is after midnight, you will need to take bus N100 to the center of Yerevan and then proceed to the campsite by taxi, which is affordable.

ℹ️ Additional information

Amount based on mutual agreement

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📷 Project photos

Help for Change

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📅 Available sessions

HUJ 5

12/08/2026 → 25/08/2026

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0 / 15

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HUJ7

01/07/2026 at 00:00 → 31/07/2026 at 00:00

Open

0 / 25

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HUJ7

01/06/2026 at 00:00 → 31/12/2028 at 00:00

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0 / 15

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

16–28 years old

Solidarity donation

200.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Yerevan, Armenia

Armenia

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Armenian Dram (AMD / ֏ )

Exchange rate

1 AMD = 0.002483 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Armenia Standard Time

Local time: 20:54 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

Armenian English