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Arménie: Arabkir Medical Center (ESC)
About the local hosting organization
The center provides medical services for different child diseases. They also provide services for emergency cases and number of services for adults. Next to the hospital there is a school which provides educational support to the children receiving their treatment in Arabkir Hospital.
Presentation of the programme
- Working in the hospital school by assisting the teachers, organizing activities, workshops, or classes on different topics.
- Manage social media platform
- Work with the Marketing team and assist in the implementation of digital marketing campaigns, including email and social media
- Publish videos and photographs on company website and blogs.
- Edit and revise content as necessary
- Make translations, documentary activities and administrative tasks.
Local accommodation
Do not worry about sleeping bags, as you will stay in hostels/buildings/cottages of the hosting organizations where you will be provided with beds/mattresses and bedding packs.
In Armenian camps you should be disciplined and organized. Making beds and keeping the rooms neat and clean every day is obligatory.
Special info about the food
Volunteers will prepare the food by 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 etc. and vegetables.
About the leisure activities possible
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.
About the 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.
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.
Extra info about the project
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.
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