SOAR - Venice Chapter
Venice joined the SOAR family in August 2024. Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers. In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the Comune di Venezia, of whom around 51,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (centro storico) and the rest on the mainland (terraferma). Together, with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, with a total population of 2.6 million. There are currently 2,500-3,500 Armenians in Italy. mainly residing in Milan, Rome and Venice. Besides the general population, there are monastic communities on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Venice) as well as Armenian clergy at the Holy See (Vatican).
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Nicole Petrucci
President
Nicole is completing a three-year degree in Russian and Italian Sign Language with a focus on international politics at Ca’ Foscari, Venice. Originally from Italy, he grew up speaking German in San Candido in Trentino Alto Adige and has been living in Venice for three years. She currently works as a contributor to the daily newspaper Il Gazzettino and travels in her spare time. During a volunteering trip to Armenia, where she was a guest of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception at the summer camp for poor and orphaned children in Tsaghkadzor, Nicole came into direct contact with SOAR and realized the important support role that the association represents for the Armenian population. Back in Venice, the Venetian chapter was set up to help spread the word about the emergency situation of the Armenian population, as well as to organize events to financially support SOAR’s annual goals for a future for children and families, the disabled and the elderly in need in Armenia.