SMILE TO TREAT
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About the project
SMILE TO TREAT
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Centre is situated not far from the center of Yerevan, next to the artificial Lake Yerevan. The territory of the Rehabilitation Center is former Governmental rest house. The camp will be opened for the 23rd time and is already a popular and traditional one. Every year the children, who receive their treatment here, look forward to meeting the volunteers in summer. Volunteers bring a lot of ideas, spirit, love, warmth, kindness, and make the stay of the children in this Center a great holiday. They make these children feel that they are needed, full-valued and help them to reveal their talents and abilities.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this workcamp is organization of the leisure time of children with disabilities that receive their treatment in this Centre and environmental work on the territory. Volunteers’ day will begin with environmental work: maintaining the territory, cleaning children’s playground from weeds and grass, painting and some renovation work. After the children finish their therapy, volunteers will join them to draw, sculpture, sing and dance, do physical training, play games. At the end of the camp volunteers and children will organize a farewell concert.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a separate cottage on the territory of the Rehabilitation Center and sleep in beds.
🍲 Food
Volunteers will prepare the food by themselves on the principle of duty. 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 etc. and vegetables.
🎒 Leisure activities
Armenia is called an open-air museum. You will have lots of interesting excursions and visits to historical monuments and museums, which will be organized during the work camp.
The excursions to the following sights will be organized upon the decision of the camp and all the visits will be free. The proposed list of the excursions is the following: Echmiadzin Mother Cathedral, Zvartnots Cathedral ruins, Garni Pagan Temple, Geghard Monastery Complex with a program of World Heritage Initiative, Lake Sevan (with a barbecue on the beach). Volunteers will visit Matenadaran-storehouse of ancient manuscripts, Historical Museum of Armenia or National Gallery of Armenia, museum of famous film director S. Parajanov, Vernissage-Armenian big souvenirs market under the open sky. Different games, Armenian dancing and language lessons will be organized in the workcamps.
Leisure time for joint workcamps are individual.
⚠️ Requirements
It is very important to bring with you different board games, songbooks, and children’s songs to work with children and for using in the performances/concerts which will be organized on the last day of the work camp.
During the workcamp volunteers will organize the Intercultural days when each volunteer will present his/her country, so please bring photos and booklets describing your country, recipes of national dishes, products and spices and national songs.
You can bring your musical instruments, CDs with your favorite national songs and music and, of course, your high spirit and creativity.
🤝 Meeting point
Armenian volunteers of your camp will meet you at the airport in case your arrival time is between
8:00-24:00 and will take you to the camp. Please note that if you arrive before the starting date of the camp, the Armenian volunteers may not be available to pick you up.
If your arrival time is after midnight, you will have to look for a bus to the center of Yerevan or take a taxi to the work camp.
After sending your application and being accepted to the work camp, you will soon receive an email from your camp leader, please reply promptly.
ℹ️ Additional information
Visa-free regime for EU and CIS citizens. The updated list of countries not needing visa to enter Armenia is available here: http://mfa.am/en/visa
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📅 Available sessions
GROUPES_HU2020
01/07/2021 → 31/07/2021
HUJGroupes-SmileToTreat2021AUTO-EXT
02/09/2024 at 00:00 → 04/11/2027 at 00:00
HUJ10
21/07/2016 → 03/08/2016
HUJ4
18/07/2018 → 31/08/2018
HUJ1
18/07/2020 → 31/07/2020
HUJ4
21/07/2017 → 02/08/2017
HUJGroupes-SmileToTreat
01/07/2018 → 31/07/2018
HUJ4
18/07/2019 → 31/07/2019
HUJGroupes-SmileToTreat2021
01/07/2021 → 01/09/2024
GROUPES_HUJ4.2020
01/07/2021 → 31/08/2024
GROUPES_HUJ6
01/07/2019 → 31/07/2019
GROUPES_HUJ4
01/07/2019 → 31/07/2021
HUJ4
03/08/2017 → 16/08/2017
HUJ4
07/07/2016 → 20/07/2016
HUJ3
03/08/2023 at 00:00 → 16/08/2023 at 00:00
HUJ4
31/07/2015 → 13/08/2015
HUJ3
04/08/2022 → 17/08/2022
HUJ 4
15/08/2024 → 28/08/2024
HUJ 2
01/08/2024 → 14/08/2024
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
100.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Yerevanyan Lake, 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: 21:48 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
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