http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkr636wwvDU Civil.am – your guide to civil society activity in Armenia – is a project of the Civilitas Foundation. Take a closer look to better understand what is already being done. Identify potential partners and cooperation possibilities. Support existing programs
Small Theater Company on inspiring young people and children of Armenia to imagine and be creative
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTa__vQchzw Civil.am – your guide to civil society activity in Armenia – is a project of the Civilitas Foundation. Take a closer look to better understand what is already being done. Identify potential partners and cooperation possibilities. Support existing programs
Rebuilding the Libraries of Armenia, One Step at a Time
When I was little, every Christmas I would get the same thing in my stocking: a headlight so I could read in bed late into the night. While everyone else was sleeping, I would stay up for hours, immersed in
A Guide to Civil Society Activities
Bringing NGOs and Donors Closer Together The Civilitas Foundation has initiated a program called A Guide to Non-Governmental Organizations. The program has several objectives, including creating a mechanism for potential donors to identify possible CSO partners. According to different sources,
Libraries: real, accessible, and free centers of civil society
Fifteen-year-old Julietta Movsisian will no longer huddle over her books in the cold, since next winter the library in the city of Charentsavan will have heating and proper conditions, just like those in the rest of the world. “Most of
Empowering People
It’s Friday morning and a cold shower in the Mirhav Hotel reminds me of the not so distant past when a hot shower in the morning seemed like a far-away mirage. Fortunately it is just a matter of a phone
Putting Grandmas Out of a Job
It is harvest season in Armenia. The rural development team makes regular visits to villages to monitor Civilitas programs. The individual stories are representative of the dilemmas facing individual farmers and Armenia’s rural economy in general. I get excited about
It is harvest season in Armenia
We’ve made more than two dozen trips to Meghri since the start of our Bringing Water to Syunik’s Border Villages project, but this trip was different, it felt different. Never before has the road to Meghri been so colorful. Never
Success Breeds Success
Today I had an unusual visitor. One of our beneficiaries, Vardan Ghalechyan, (who has completed the payments of the milking unit we provided almost a year ago) came to our office in response to our offer to start a second
Beyond saving?
It’s been several months (of meetings and proposals) since our decision to put together a project that will assist the Bardzravan community in Syunik in securing a market for their milk and help them get on their feet. Everything seems