By Shoghik Mikayelyan | Executive Director
“It is such a great feeling, when you share you knowledge with others. You feel the importance of your personality. You realize that all the skills and knowledge you have gained are not in vain.” one of the mentees expressed herself this way, when she made a presentation on International Genocide Day. When our organization joined the Orange the World 16-day-activity, the mentees expressed interest to speak out about the important topics concerning women. Accordingly 6 mentees used their skills learnt in Nor Luyce andpresented different topics in various organizations.
During these three months we planned to realize 7 computer classes, instead we realized 12 meetings. Every month the mentees came to the organization not only to gain new skills in computer like MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Photoshop, etc. but also to practice the learnt ones and work on their Power Point presentations.
Each of the mentees chose a topic of their interest and wrote a paper work on it, then they made a Power Point presentation on that same topic, later after taking part in Rhetorical Speech meeting, the mentees presented their presentations in front of other members of the organization and in other entities.
There were also mentees who presented the same topic at school for their classmates. This speaks to the fact that they enjoyed talking in front of a group of people and want to do more.
“We can’t recognize our student. She used to be so indifferent towards everything, towards classes and education. Now she is as if quite another person. We see how motivated she is when she comes to school and, recently, she has organized a presentation at a geology class.”: a teacher described one of our mentee during our monitoring meeting. This mentee doesn’t have a father and her mother doesn’t pay enough attention to her. Before joining our organization she didn’t find any meaning in life. But now she wants to go forward, get a college degree and develop her career.
Based on evaluations we can say that Nor Luyce is the only program in Gyumri, Armenia that provides mentees with skill building trainings, career planning meetings and with computer skills.
Mentees take part in different skills building meetings that help them to become better educated, more involved in team work. During these three months the mentees took part in the following group meetings: “MS Word”, “Power Point Presentation”, “Rhetorical Speech”, “Course work” and the mentees presented their topics to other members of the organization, etc. For each mentee we spend $50 per month. We help the mentees to build skills for their future careers. In total the mentees took part in 24 hours of group meetings in these three months.
“The teacher asked me to take the initiative to organize an event dedicated to one of the famous Armenian poets. This made me to feel important and self-resilient. Thanks to Nor Luyce I acquired not only the necessary skills but also the belief in me to make a change in my life.” one of our mentees was telling her experience in Nor Luyce with enthusiasm.
Along with the computer classes 10 more girls took part in mentoring individual meetings. We provide every mentee with an individual ‘care-taker’, a close person who is more than a mentor, who is always there to listen to them and give a supporting hand.
Nor Luyce provides mentees with role models and a solid foundation to become successful young women.
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