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Short but meaningful: My story in Armenia20230125111826
Short but meaningful: My story in Armenia
January 25, 20230 comments
I came to Armenia by chance. When I graduated from school, my knowledge of this country was only in books. But when my classm...
Life lessons and genuine people in Armenia20230116084141
Life lessons and genuine people in Armenia
January 16, 20230 comments
A warm welcome from Armenians reconciled my language barrier The decision to come to Armenia was on my mind for quite some ti...
Teaching German in Armenian villages during his retirement20230110134711
Teaching German in Armenian villages during his retirement
January 10, 20230 comments
Age is not an obstacle to volunteering When Hans-Christopher Pocha, a 66-year-old participant from Germany retired from his p...
Why Armenia? Why not Armenia?20221128115515
Why Armenia? Why not Armenia?
November 28, 20220 comments
“To serve Armenia is to serve civilization” -William Gladstone, Former UK Prime Minister “Why Armenia?̶...
AVC with a Disability: How I Did It20221117072329
AVC with a Disability: How I Did It
November 17, 20220 comments
The lack of an author picture and an “anonymous” byline are neither accidents nor signs of shame. They are meant ...
Success: Establishing the Film Commission20221114132738
Success: Establishing the Film Commission
November 14, 20220 comments
Do you remember Eva Minassian? She is an AVC volunteer who was determined to create a film commission to help promote Armenia...
ABCs of AVC20221007121603
ABCs of AVC
October 7, 20220 comments
The ABCs of AVC: A Poem by Michael Collins Are you ready to step outside your comfort zone, Bringing your best self to the fo...
Emie’s Impactful Volunteering Well Timed20221011072420
Emie’s Impactful Volunteering Well Timed
October 11, 20220 comments
It was August 2021, in peak COVID lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, where I sat in my lounge room in silence. I knew I wanted...
French student does his internship abroad with AVC20220912140129
French student does his internship abroad with AVC
September 12, 20220 comments
Without Armenian roots or knowledge of the language, Adrien Catry journeyed from Lille, France to volunteer with the Armenian...
Exposing Adventurous Travelers to Armenia20220831081609
Exposing Adventurous Travelers to Armenia
August 31, 20220 comments
After volunteering as an English teacher in Yerevan, AVC alumnus Ric Gazarian (2004) strongly maintained his connections to h...
Days of Mourning after Surmalu Explosion20220819134408
Days of Mourning after Surmalu Explosion
August 19, 20220 comments
No time is convenient for tragedy to strike, But Yerevantsis got a chance to see what it looks like. Yerevan’s characterist...
“I’ll be back” by Chad Bell20220812064510
“I’ll be back” by Chad Bell
August 12, 20220 comments
“I’ll be back.” That’s what I said as I gazed out the window towards the beautiful Armenian landscape and Mt. Ararat....
Volunteer in your 70s… with your child20220731195829
Here is my Armenian story20220731194139
Here is my Armenian story
July 31, 20220 comments
My Armenian story started in 2019, when, wanting to travel after long years of work in Law school, law firms, law department,...
I Thought I Was Just Passing Through…20220720115502
I Thought I Was Just Passing Through…
July 20, 20220 comments
I don’t know how other non-Armenian volunteers learned about AVC or how long it took them to commit to the program, but I d...
New Start for Olga in Armenia20220629083425
New Start for Olga in Armenia
June 29, 20220 comments
Olga Kuzamichёva is not Armenian – she is Russian. Along with her husband and three year old son, Sasha, she left Irku...
Meet Another ABC of AVC – Mario to Narek20220531134612
Meet Another ABC of AVC – Mario to Narek
May 31, 20220 comments
“I will teach my kids what it means to be a real Armenian,” says Mario Sanz Gonzalez, a young man of Spanish descent, wh...
Marching, Commemorating and Recycling20220520133915
Marching, Commemorating and Recycling
May 20, 20220 comments
Armenians recently commemorated another April 24th, bringing with it over a century of pain and anguish for the Armenian peop...
Armenia From The View of a Young Non-Armenian Genocide Studies Researcher20220503173347
Armenia From The View of a Young Non-Armenian Genocide Studies Researcher
May 3, 20220 comments
People often ask me why I decided to spend three months in Armenia as a researcher. As a volunteer with the Armenain Voluntee...