SOS - KINDERDORF
Armenia
Children
Children
Fixed dates
About the project
SOS - KINDERDORF
📝 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 volunteers will do environmental and renovation work on the territory. The further details will be provided at the time of the workcamp.
Volunteers will participate in most activities with the children, performing a variety of different tasks. They will organize workshops - painting, sculpturing, handicrafts, dancing, singing, sports, language lessons, leisure time games.
The main aim of the camp is organization of a concert or a performance and an exhibition of works which will be presented at the end. The concert/performance will be organized with the active participation of the children and the volunteers, making an interesting presentation of the national songs, dances, traditions of each country the volunteers come from.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will live in a separate comfortable cottage on the territory of the village.
🍲 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
The SOS Children's Village is a place where children particularly those who have no parental care and those whose families have to live in difficult conditions have found their new mothers, sisters and brothers and live in families. It is situated in the Province Kotayk, 15km from Yerevan, where 6-7 children live in separate cottages with their SOS mothers.
🎒 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
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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.
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01/07/2015 → 14/07/2015
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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