HOPESHINE

Name: HOPESHINE
Start: 2025-08-05
End: 2025-08-20
Location: Yerevan, Armenia

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Armenia Children Renovation Teenagers Children Renovation +1 Fixed dates

About the project

HOPESHINE

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Location: Yerevan School N 14 The camp will be opened for the 11th time and is already a popular and traditional one. The school for was established in 1939 in Yerevan. This school is the only one in Armenia where the education is organized using the Braille system. Most of the children stay in the school during the school year and return home only for holidays. The school gives children secondary education. From 2014 - 2024 volunteers renovated classrooms, halls, benches.

💼 What the programme involves

The aim of this work camp involves renovative tasks, including painting work, as well as maintenance and improvement of the territory. The second half of the day volunteers will play and organise interactive activties with children of the school. The participants will get certificates and letters of appreciation in the end of the work camp.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will live and work together at dormitory if the school in gender-separated rooms with beds or mattresses, bathroom and toilet. NO NEED FOR A SLEEPING BAG OR LINEN.

🍲 Food

Volunteers will be provided by food and money which will be allocated to grocery shopping. They will cook together in a group of three.

📍 About the location

🎒 Leisure activities

Cultural Program: Volunteers will have three outside trips to Sevan Lake, Garni Temple, Geghard Monastery, Symphony of stones, visits to the Mother Cathedral in Etchmiadzin, Zvartnots Cathedral ruins, as well as museums and exhibitions in Yerevan. All of these is for free. Study part: Armenian dance, song, and language workshops, along with dolma and barbeque-making classes.