YMCA Europe invites all interested YMCA organisations to apply for Camp Capacity Building Conference “Campacity”, to be implemented within the framework of “Camp Europe” project. The detailed description of the Conference and the application form are provided below: YMCA Camp Europe “Campacity” Conference is a joint initiative of YMCA Europe & the YMCA of the […]
Vardan Hambardzumyan The passing year was full of pain, much of it directly touching us – the Roots staff. Yet with that heavy load of pain on our shoulders, we still managed to take our signature of peace through this dangerous world. And we were blessed to have our key Roots event in Bethlehem… Rezi […]
What can be more pleasant than seeing the fruits of hard work?! On November 23-26, YMCA Europe Staff and partners from the American University of Armenia, YMCA Sweden, and YMCA Georgia came together in Yerevan, Armenia with the main aim to evaluate the current phase of the YMCA Europe Generation Next project and to elaborate […]
In a couple of days YMCA Europe staff and representatives of partner organisations and universities will ensemble in Yerevan, Armenia, to evaluate the current phase of the Generation Next project. This YMCA Europe large-scale and long-term initiative, with core funding from BfdW Germany, was launched back in 2020 – just before Covid and wars would […]
“Give Peace a Chance”.. Few would have predicted that after more than 50 years since half a million anti-war protesters in Washington DC echoed these words in unison, they would be still as relevant as ever.. Ongoing war in Ukraine, the eruption of violent conflict in Nagorno Karabakh and subsequent exodus of more than 100 […]
The latest edition of Roots & Next Quarterly, Issue #15, is now available, offering an in-depth retrospective of the events and activities that took place in July, August, and September 2023. This comprehensive report can be accessed in PDF format for your perusal.
The cooperation between YMCA Georgia and the State University of Sport within the framework of YMCA Europe “Generation Next” Project successfully continued in 2023. “Aspire, Activate, Achieve” brought together 26 students and 5 lecturers at YMCA Georgia “Camp Orange” on September 03-09, 2023 – aiming to prepare, endorse and sustain the pool of qualified and […]
On September 12, at the premises of and in cooperation with the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, the closing session of the YMCA Europe Generation Next Embroidery Summer School was held. The masters and the graduates of the Summer School were greeted by the YMCA Europe Executive Secretary – Vardan Hambardzumyan, and the Director of the Genocide […]
The people of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) are going through difficult times, as they lost their homes. Being blockaded for 10 months and facing another war brought them to a completely new reality, where they became refugees. Young people of YMCA Artsakh were very active in social work during the blockade and the wartime. Young people […]
Roots Peace Work Institute Reunion in the Holy Land is already a history.. 28 participants, more than 10 countries, 3 different cohorts and 1 week together is a mere statistics for an event that was like no other we have implemented before.. And we have a lot – all over Europe, thousands reached, impact made, […]
