Mission Armenia

About us

Mission Armenia was established in 1988 and is one of the largest NGOs in Armenia which provides considerable innovative input in state social policy.
In 1988, a group of volunteers united to help the victims/refugees of the disastrous earthquake and war. Within more than 20 years, the spontaneous humanitarian activities have grown into a powerful non-governmental structure, which due to its experience and knowledge has gained a special place in the social support sphere of Armenia.

Our work
• Mission Armenia created, implemented and developed a comprehensive system for providing community-based social-healthcare services, which up to now have no parallels in either state or public sectors. This system enabled the elderly, the disabled, refugees, persons in a refugee-like situations, stateless persons, temporary asylum holders and other vulnerable groups to access a variety of social and healthcare services in their homes and communities according to their personal needs and abilities.
• Mission Armenia has founded about 50 infrastructures that provide a comprehensive set of community-based services to over 15,000 beneficiaries all over Armenia.
• The services are provided through the community-based social-healthcare model developed by Mission Armenia, which has traditional social work at its base. From 2007 to 2010 the model was licensed by the international ISO 9001-2000 Quality and Administrative Management System, as well as in 2008 RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs granted license to Mission Armenia for social service provision.
• Having adopted a systematized approach of assisting the vulnerable groups the organization not only provides services to beneficiaries but also strives to contribute to the overall improvement of social policies and the development of social partnership.

Mission Armenia's community-based model has found wide recognition not only in Armenia but also in the whole Caucasus region, having been introduced in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan.

Mission Armenia is also:
• Founder of International Union of Black Sea NGOs comprised of 50 NGOs from 12 states of the Black Sea region, the secretariat of which is permanently based in Armenia and is headed by the Mission Armenia NGO.
• Founder/member of different local, regional and international networks dedicated to poverty reduction and social reforms for the elderly, disabled and refugees.
Mission Armenia Funding
Mission Armenia realizes its activities collaborating with the Government of Armenia, local self-governing bodies, UNHCR, European Union, a number of other international organizations as well as the Mission Armenia branches in Australia that was established in 2001.
Since 2007 a portion of funding necessary for the realization of Mission Armenia activities has been provided by the Armenian Government's Medium-Term Expenditures program as well as by local self-governing bodies through cost-sharing agreements.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.