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    Annual increase in foreign volunteers' number to Armenia reported


    March 26, 2011 - 16:48 AMT 12:48 GMT
    PanARMENIAN.Net -

    On March 26, the president of youth clubs federation Atom Mkhitaryan
    and the US Peace Corps regional office manager Hovhannes Stepanyan
    hosted discussions, titled What's Volunteering and Why to Become a
    Volunteer.

    `The number of foreign volunteers to Armenia is increasing annually,'
    they told a news conference.

    `In 2008, 48 European volunteers arrived in Armenia. By 2010, their
    number increased by 52. At present, there are 98 volunteers, involved
    in US Peace Corpse programs,' Mkhitaryan said.

    `Volunteering is very prestigious in our country. I've been in Armenia
    for 22 months already. It's a good country, yet it's a pity young
    people in the regions have so few distractions,' an Alaskan volunteer
    Nicholas Hutchings told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

    Volunteers in Armenia are involved in the following spheres: community
    issues, foreign language training, medicine and environmental
    protection.




    From: A. Papazian
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