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Short but meaningful: My story in Armenia20230125111826
Short but meaningful: My story in Armenia
January 25, 2023
I came to Armenia by chance. When I graduated from school, my knowledge of this country was only in books. But when my classmates asked me if I wanted to come t...
Life lessons and genuine people in Armenia20230116084141
Life lessons and genuine people in Armenia
January 16, 2023armenia, Professional Corps, volunteer in Armenia
A warm welcome from Armenians reconciled my language barrier The decision to come to Armenia was on my mind for quite some time. It was going to be my third tim...
Teaching German in Armenian villages during his retirement20230110134711
Teaching German in Armenian villages during his retirement
January 10, 2023
Age is not an obstacle to volunteering When Hans-Christopher Pocha, a 66-year-old participant from Germany retired from his position as a former headmaster and ...
Why Armenia? Why not Armenia?20221128115515
Why Armenia? Why not Armenia?
November 28, 2022
“To serve Armenia is to serve civilization” -William Gladstone, Former UK Prime Minister “Why Armenia?” A question often posed to me wit...
AVC with a Disability: How I Did It20221117072329
AVC with a Disability: How I Did It
November 17, 2022
The lack of an author picture and an “anonymous” byline are neither accidents nor signs of shame. They are meant to convey a message: “Disabil...
Success: Establishing the Film Commission20221114132738
Success: Establishing the Film Commission
November 14, 2022
Do you remember Eva Minassian? She is an AVC volunteer who was determined to create a film commission to help promote Armenia as a filming destination and provi...
ABCs of AVC20221007121603
ABCs of AVC
October 7, 2022
The ABCs of AVC: A Poem by Michael Collins Are you ready to step outside your comfort zone, Bringing your best self to the fore every day? Can you spend your ti...
Emie’s Impactful Volunteering Well Timed20221011072420
Emie’s Impactful Volunteering Well Timed
October 11, 2022
It was August 2021, in peak COVID lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, where I sat in my lounge room in silence. I knew I wanted to go to Armenia again. But this t...
French student does his internship abroad with AVC20220912140129
French student does his internship abroad with AVC
September 12, 2022
Without Armenian roots or knowledge of the language, Adrien Catry journeyed from Lille, France to volunteer with the Armenian Volunteer Corps (AVC) in January o...
Exposing Adventurous Travelers to Armenia20220831081609
Exposing Adventurous Travelers to Armenia
August 31, 2022
After volunteering as an English teacher in Yerevan, AVC alumnus Ric Gazarian (2004) strongly maintained his connections to his ancestral homeland. Fast forward...
Days of Mourning after Surmalu Explosion20220819134408
Days of Mourning after Surmalu Explosion
August 19, 2022
No time is convenient for tragedy to strike, But Yerevantsis got a chance to see what it looks like. Yerevan’s characteristic peace was shattered; Armenians w...
“I’ll be back” by Chad Bell20220812064510
“I’ll be back” by Chad Bell
August 12, 2022
“I’ll be back.” That’s what I said as I gazed out the window towards the beautiful Armenian landscape and Mt. Ararat. I just finished my month-long tenu...
Volunteer in your 70s… with your child20220731195829
Here is my Armenian story20220731194139
Here is my Armenian story
July 31, 2022
My Armenian story started in 2019, when, wanting to travel after long years of work in Law school, law firms, law department, I booked a hiking trip in Armenia ...
I Thought I Was Just Passing Through…20220720115502
I Thought I Was Just Passing Through…
July 20, 2022
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 discovered AVC several years before ...
New Start for Olga in Armenia20220629083425
New Start for Olga in Armenia
June 29, 2022
Olga Kuzamichёva is not Armenian – she is Russian. Along with her husband and three year old son, Sasha, she left Irkutsk for Yerevan on April 25 of this...
Meet Another ABC of AVC – Mario to Narek20220531134612
Meet Another ABC of AVC – Mario to Narek
May 31, 2022
“I will teach my kids what it means to be a real Armenian,” says Mario Sanz Gonzalez, a young man of Spanish descent, who himself is taking the first steps...
Marching, Commemorating and Recycling20220520133915
Marching, Commemorating and Recycling
May 20, 2022
Armenians recently commemorated another April 24th, bringing with it over a century of pain and anguish for the Armenian people. This day marks the day the Otto...
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, 2022
People often ask me why I decided to spend three months in Armenia as a researcher. As a volunteer with the Armenain Volunteer Corps, I was placed with the Amer...