Olympos-1
Armenia
Environment
Renovation
Environment
Renovation
Fixed dates
About the project
Olympos-1
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Voluntary Service of Armenia e" Republican Headquarters of Student Brigades (HUJ) was founded in 1965 and is registered as a non-governmental organization. HUJ is a member of the Coordinating Committee of International Voluntary Service (CCIVS) at UNESCO and the Alliance of European Voluntary Service organizations.
HUJ organizes volunteer exchanges with 120 partner organizations abroad and holds a database of 3000 volunteers registered in HUJ as of today. The main activities run by HUJ are for and with volunteers, mainly the young people. The regular activities of our organisation include exchange of volunteers with different organisations, opening of international workcamps in Armenia, preparation and sending volunteers to different trainings and seminars, as well as EVS and other long-term projects. The essential aims of the organisation are to raise the social competences and employability of the youth by organising activities for national and foreign volunteers in various programs in Armenia (workcamps, training courses, medium and long-term projects) as well as facilitating the participation of local and national volunteers in similar projects abroad; to take care of orphans, children with special needs and socially indigent people by proposing activities to and for them and making them more visible for local, national and international communities.
💼 What the programme involves
The main aim is to perform the following tasks:
' Maintenance of territory
' Painting the benches and pavilions
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation of the volunteers is planned to be in several rooms of school dormitory, situated on the territory of the center.
🍲 Food
Volunteers will prepare the food themselves. You will taste all kinds of Armenian traditional food, such as dolma, khorovats (barbecue), kiabab, khashlama, incomparable fruits of Ararat Valley - apricots, grapes, peaches, apples, berries.
📍 About the location
There are still many educational centers in Armenia that need partly renovation. One of such centers is eoeOlympose(TM)e(TM) built in 1950 at one of the most beautiful places of Yerevan e" in Old Nork. The centre has a beautiful park zone since the date of its establishment, which occupies the territory and has fruit gardens, playgrounds, and covered swimming pool that need special care and renovation. People, who graduated from this center or those who are still attending it, as well as local population, are proud of eoeOlympose . The administration of the Center does its best to organize studentse(TM) leisure time, give them an ecological education and teach them to love the Nature.
🎒 Leisure activities
Armenia is called an open-air museum. A lot of interesting excursions and visits to historical monuments and museums will be organized during the workcamp. The excursions to the following sights will be organized on the expense of HUJ: Echmiadzin Mother Cathedral, Zvartnots Cathedral ruins, Garni Pagan Temple, Geghard
4
Monastery Complex with a program of PATRIMONITO, Lake Sevan (with a barbecue on the beach). Volunteers will also visit Matenadaran-storehouse of ancient manuscripts, Historical Museum of Armenia, National Gallery of Armenia, museum of famous film director S. Parajanov, Vernissage e" Armenian big souvenirs market under the open sky. There will be different games, Armenian dancing and language lessons organized in the workcamp.
⚠️ Requirements
It is very important to take along different table games, songbooks, children song CDs for work with children and for using in the performances/concerts to be organized for the last day of the workcamp. During the workcamp volunteers will be organizing the eoeDays of countriese when each volunteer shall present his/her country, so please bring photos and booklets describing your country, recipes of national dishes, national songs. You will have free time after the work, so you can bring your music instruments, CDs with your favorite national songs and music and, of course, your high spirit and your creativity.
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
HUJ7
06/07/2016 → 19/07/2016
Volunteers registered
0 / 22
♂ 0/11
♀ 0/11
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 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
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
Armenian