The intensive agenda for the Diaspora Youth Ambassadors has started

29 September 2022

On the first day, the Diaspora Youth Ambassadors met with Vartan Marashlyan, the Head of Repat Armenia, to discuss relations between Armenia and the Diaspora. Furthermore, Hovhannes Aleksanyan, our Office's repatriation coordinator presented the current challenges of moving to Armenia.

Afterwards, the participants visited the Komitas Pantheon and laid flowers at the monument, and they also visited the Komitas Museum-Institute. In addition, Varduhi Gumruyan, the HR team lead of Renderforest Armenia, shared the opportunities for professional repatriation in Armenia. Later, the participants had the opportunity to exchange questions and ideas with repatriates and Repat Armenia's team.

During the second day, the Diaspora Youth Ambassadors had discussions around educational programs; met with Teach for Armenia and talked about "Transforming the Country through Education", had an encounter with representatives of the M.A.M. educational movement, and discussed the possibilities of online Armenian language courses for Diaspora Armenians.

Following the meetings, our Office's Media team held a seminar on how to be a Diaspora Youth Ambassador in the media and talked through frameworks to partner up with our Office. For closing the day, each participant presented their communities and shared information with their fellow Ambassadors.

Սփյուռքի Գլխավոր Հանձնակատարի Գրասենյակ Diaspora High Commissioner's Office