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#8 December—February, 2015

“With the help of games we s hould teach te enagers all the things that they really nee d in the future.”

S. Babayan

Steps to a Sustainable Future

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Mentoring Phase During these three months we had three mentoring group meetings, titled as follows: “Development of imagination and memory”, “Fear and the ways to overcome it”, and “I want to change the world”. All the meetings were intended to reveal their inner world, fears and all the other positive traits, which help to develop a creative person.

Individual meetings in Nor Luyce Mentoring individual meetings are still going on in Nor Luyce. Now we have 11 mentor-mentee pairs, who have organized 101 individual meetings in total. The meetings that were realized during the three months were very interesting, unique and educational. During these three months the pairs visited museums, exhibitions, jobsites of their friends, went out for a walk, celebrated a mentee’s birthday, baked together, etc. Our mentors also visited their mentees at school and music school, went to the events where their mentees were participating, they also sat with their mentees at a class.

Lead me and I will follow you During these three months mentor-mentee pairs have organized three meetings. With the help of mentors the mentees made and presented presentation on the following topics: “The magic world of Armenian legends”, “Worldwide sport championship” and “I want to change the world”. All the meetings were motivating and full of aspiration.

Skill Building Phase During these three months six group meetings were organized, that aimed to arm the mentees with all the important skills necessary for the 21st century. Those skills were the following ones: time management, team work, right use of internet, computers, and web-sites, how to right a paper and how to get ready for an interview.

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Scholarship Phase During these three months our mentees took part in two more group meetings referring to financial fields. During one of the meetings the mentees learnt about budgeting and during the other one they met with a financier. Our speaker, Jenya Mazmanyan, summed up the financial meeting and answered all the questions that mentees had. Right after the financial meetings the mentees took part in computer classes. During these classes the mentees learnt MS Word and MS Power Point in details.

Overall group meetings During these three months we had two overall group meetings: “Christmas” and “The secret of success”. The last meeting aimed to root the sense of trust in mentees for them to be easy to reach their goals and have success. Regarding Christmas, we could celebrate it on December 21st, 2014. The aim of the meeting was to celebrate the holiday with the whole team, have fun and enjoy our day together. During the meeting the mentor-mentee pairs presented a small activity together, while other mentees presented small shows with their phase groups.

During the event the mentees showed different dances, songs, humor activities, exchanged with information about Christmas, and also cited poems.

Mentoring training Nor Luyce continues providing the mentors with mentoring trainings for them to have productive meetings with their mentees. Mentoring trainings help the mentors to gain new knowledge and new techniques regarding the mentoring. Nor Luyce also provided the mentors with other important trainings to help them be more developed. During these three months our mentors took part in three trainings on “How to motivate the teenagers”, “Credit and debit cards, loans”, and “how to post an article in Wikipedia”. All the meetings were led by the appropriate trainers.

Special thank you to Hripsime Farzadyan, Gohar Hovhannisyan and Jenya Mazmanyan for their support.

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Successes of our mentees During this period our mentees took part in different competitions and events. A highlight was when our mentee: Arpine Termenjan, won a Silver prize in the Adult Weightlifting Championship held in Yerevan.

Congratulations dear Arpine

English and Armenian language classes in Nor Luyce Two groups of English Language classes are going on in Nor Luyce. In these three months Armenian language classes were also organized.

Our tutors help the mentees not only to get ready for the State exams, but also have thorough knowledge in those languages.

Thank you dear tutors for educating the mentees.

Nor Luyce continues to realize its mission Nor Luyce continues to realize its mission with providing not only mentoring and other educational meetings, but also with scholarships and other necessary things. This time Nor luyce provided two mentees with winter coats and boots.

Nor Luyce took part in Volunteer Armenia Expo in Los Angeles, CA One of the best BR volunteers of Nor Luyce NGO: Alena Sarkissian, volunteered her time and presented Nor Luyce NGO at Volunteer Armenia Expo held on February 28, 2015. The Expo was organized by Armenian Cultural Foundation in Montebello, Los Angeles, CA.

“Nor Luyce� Mentoring Center for Youth Adress: Ghorghanyan 238, Tel. 055 01 72 19 Gyumri, RA nluyce@gmail.com 3105 www.norluyce.com