📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This work camp is already very popular and traditional. The school was established in 1939 in Yerevan and is the only one in Armenia where education is organized using the Braille system. Most children live at the school during the school year and return home only for holidays. The school provides secondary education. Between 2014 and 2025, volunteers have renovated classrooms, halls, benches, painted walls, and improved the school territory.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this work camp is to carry out renovation tasks, including painting classroom walls, as well as maintaining and improving the school territory to enhance the learning environment for the children.In the second half of the day, volunteers will play and organize interactive activities with the children. Volunteers are encouraged to create games and activities, assist the children with learning tasks, and play outdoor games to help develop teamwork and cooperation skills.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 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.Volunteers will stay in the school dormitories. Beds, mattresses, and linen will be provided.
📍 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.
ℹ️ Additional information
Amount based on mutual agreement, April i June or September i December, 12 days, Dates must be arranged with the partner organization