On June 4th in the frames of "UPSHIFT Armenia" Adolescents Development and Empowerment programme monitoring visits took place with teams which got financial support. The programme team visited them and got acquainted with the process and the results which they have now. The adolecents also had an opportunity to share their impressions, challenges and positive moments they had during the implementation of their projects, in addition they made suggestions on what kind of changes they want to see in the programme. *"UPSHIFT Armenia" Adolescents Development and Empowerment programme is implemented by Gyumri "Youth Initiative Centre" NGO in cooperation with UNICEF Armeni...

On April 14, in the frames of UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empowerment prօgramme a “Project Design” training course took place in Gyumri Technological Center. 46 adolescents from Shirak and Lori regions participated in the training. 10 teams, who passed the competition of community development youth projects, selected their mentors by lot. Until May 5 with their mentors teams will work on their projects defining the aim, objectives, actions, responsible persons, existing and required recourses. On May 5 and 6 during the final selection event which will take place in Gyumri the 10 teams will present their ideas from which 5 projects w...

On April 13, mentors’ training of UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empowerment prօgramme on Project Design took place. During the training course, 5 mentors of the programme had an opportunity to get acquainted with the process of generating ideas, defining goals and objectives of the project, design action and financial plans, and styles of evaluating and monitoring the implementation of the project. The training was conducted by Anna Yeghoyan and Karen Sargsyan. It should be noted that from April to August selected mentors will support groups of adolescents formed within the UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empow...

We are delighted to share about one of our most impressive projects of this summer, “Girls Leading Our World” (GLOW) which is a joint project of Gyumri “Youth Initiative Centre” and the U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers with the financial support of the U.S. Embassy Armenia. GLOW is a girls’ leadership and empowerment project that promotes leadership, friendship, civic engagement, gender equality, rights awareness in young Armenian women through targeted curriculum and participant-led community projects implementation. Three day camps and one overnight camp were implemented during July-August in the communities of Gyumri, Kapan, Gavar and village Torosgyugh of Shirak ...

On September 13th, the final event of the YIC Girl’s Bicycle Project was held in Emili Aregak Center. During the event the participants showed their riding skills. Afterwards there was a small celebration at the “Youth House” Open Youth Center, where participants and trainers of the program were awarded with certificates. * Girl’s Bicycle Project is implemented by Gyumri's Youth Initiatives Center NGO in cooperation with Peace Corps Armenia and Emili Aregak Center.                  See more......

GLOW Armenia in partnership with Gyumri Youth Initiative Centre (YIC) and Komitas Action Suisse-Arménie Swiss Humanitarian Foundation (KASA) implemented the GLOW CAMP from 3-8th of July in Toros, Armenia. The camp aims at empowering young women and promoting leadership through education in a community of sisterhood. A specialized camp curriculum is developed that will enhance the confidence and leadership skills of participants. The curriculum consists of information about topics such as healthy lifestyles, environmental stewardship, gender roles, conflict resolution. The program is sponsored by: Democracy Commision ''Small Grants Program'' - U.S. Embassy Yerevan, Armeni...

When: December 5, 2015 Description: On the occasion of the International Volunteering Day Gyumri "Youth Initiative Centre" NGO launched the contest of ideas promoting volunteering and youth initiatives in Shirak Region in the scope of "Ghaydov Initiative 2015".  The initiative entitled “Craftsman is hungry until noon” presented by Davit Haroyan won the contest. On 9th of December, 2015 Davit and his artist friends implemented their initiative in Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute after M. Nalbandyan. Within the framework of the initiative they made necklaces with the first letters of participants’ names with Armenian miniatures. Throughout the event national ...

When. December 5, 2014 Description. On the occasion of the International Volunteering Day Gyumri "Youth Initiative Centre" NGO launched the contest of ideas promoting volunteering and youth initiatives in Shirak Region in the scope of "Ghaydov Initiative".  The initiative entitled “Itinerant Musicians” presented by Gor Ghazaryan won the contest. On 5th of December, Gor and his musician friends organized a concert-donation on the walking street of Rizhkov in Gyumri. After 3 hours of donation, 70.000 AMD collected to which 50.000 AMD will be added by YIC NGO and all proceeds will be transferred to cover the tuition fee of a student studying in one of the educa...

When. December 18, 2013 Description. Movie screening was held at YIC NGO’s office by YIC NGO member Geteon Simonyan’s initiative. “Armenia’s breaking backbone” environmental-documental movie’s screening in Gyumri is continuing. Movie was filmed by AEPF members and is representing the problems which appear in Armenia because of mining. You can watch the movie trailer by the following link:  ...

When. 2012 Description. Since April 2012, YIC volunteer Syuzanna Galstyan has been participating in the Joint Civic Education country program. Within the framework of this program, Syuzanna and Karine Mkhitaryan (another program participant) designed and implemented a project at the F. Nansen boarding school in Gyumri. The project was called “Let the SUN shine brighter for EVERYONE”, with the idea that all children are born with equal rights and the Sun must shine “equally bright” for everyone. The project consisted of the following stages: ·         getting to know each other through juggling activities and interactive games ·         t...