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Anna joined Nor Luyce in September 2020. When she joined, her mother asked us to help the daughter to become more social, be integrated within the community, and assist to find interests in life. Since September 5 months have passed and last week when we met Anna’s mom again, she kept expressing her gratitude to the organization, to Anna’s mentor because a vast change can be seen in Anna. Her mom kept saying that Anna has become more initiative, started to express the internet in everything, became very active, and can easily make friends in her community.

Nor Luyce continues its women empowerment activities. During the last 3 months, our mentor-mentee pairs have realized 648 hours of individual and group mentoring meetings. Those meetings allowed the mentees to reveal their strengths, weaknesses, emotions, and how to manage all these emotions. The girls were empowered to change their weaknesses into strengths with the help of their mentors.

As always our program empowers not only adolescent girls but also young women through providing them necessary professional skills: such as ‘The psychology of winners’ and ‘Grief, how to overcome grief and loss.'

Along with the advancement of personal skills, the girls also continue practicing their computer skills and gaining new life-skills. During these last 3 months, the girls were provided with 30 hours of group meetings, during which they learned how to write a resume, what professions talk to their personal traits, they also revealed how to get ready for job interviews, how to be a good leader, how to keep safe from viruses, etc. The girls are not only participating in the educational meetings, but they also have a fun time celebrating New Year, international mentoring day, and other fun holidays.

In these three months, one of the most important meetings was the meeting with famous Armenian singers and dancer- Sofi Devoyan, Zaruhi Babayan, and Sofi Devoyan Jr. These well-known and respected women shared their success stories with our girls motivating them to follow their dreams and not to step back no matter how hard the road to success is.

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"When I joined Nor Luyce I wasn’t that motivated and interested in the program. I had low self-esteem. However, thanks to my mentor, I became more interested in the program, self-confident, and sociable person. Now I love and accept myself the way I am.", said one of the mentees. 

In July we finalized our 2019-2020 Mentoring Phase meetings thus registering 1276 hours of individual meetings. The meetings allowed the mentees to become self-confident, sociable, self-resilient, initiative and they could overcome their fears. All these changes are the results of the hard work of 22 mentors, whose efforts were appreciated through handing out to them certificates of completion. The mentor-mentee pair, who conducted a lot of meetings and were very initiative, received a book as a present for their best work.

As always, we not only support our mentees but we also empower our mentors. During summer we could provide our mentors with various workshops: Stress and how to overcome stress by life coach Melina Sardar, Art therapy by Rojeh Seriani, and public speaking skills and the work of the UN by Shahen Arapoghlian.

In summer while we were archiving all our documents, we could also recruit 25 new mentors. In September we could conduct pre-mentoring trainings that allowed them to learn more about the psychology of adolescents and of children living in foster care systems, they learned how to be a good communicator, provide empathy, and control their emotions. While conducting the workshops, we could also recruit 25 new mentees, who had an opportunity to meet each other in a group setting and set the base for their new friendship.

Along with the mentoring meetings, the rest of the mentees, 20 more girls, took part in life-skills, such as communication skills, time management, and teamwork. While the rest of the mentees, 25 more girls, had an opportunity to meet with a public figure: actress Yelena Borisenko, who shared her life journey, skills, and struggles throughout her professional life.