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  International Youth Day 2008    
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Bonn, Germany: International Youth Day on 12 August (visit UN site here) signals the UN's commitment to youth as an asset for development, and is an opportunity for UNV to highlight that volunteerism is an important channel for realizing the potential of youth. UNV is at work worldwide to harness youth volunteers of all kinds. By mobilizing young people through advocacy, to facilitating vocational training, to organizing environmental and sports activities, with UNV's help youth are being nurtured for the future and giving back to their communities in the present.


In Sudan, UNV engages youth volunteers in the community through sports and other activities. (B. Mikula/UNV)
An asset for development: UNV and youth
12 August 2008
Bonn, Germany: Around the world, UNV works with one of the most valuable assets for any country - its youth. Through volunteerism schemes and hands-on projects, UNV works with youth to ensure that, wherever they are, they have a part to play in long-term development. Read
More about: Youth
Maungdaw youth football players practice their skills on the beach. (UNV)
Football unites rival youth in Myanmar
12 August 2008
Maungdaw, Myanmar: While Myanmar suffers from the effects of Cyclone Nargis, it also struggles with ethnic tensions in the northern part of Rakhine State, where society has been divided for some time. But UNV volunteers working there think they have found a way to help heal the rift among youth: football. Read
More about: Culture & sports  Refugees & displaced people  Youth
Countries:  Myanmar
Online volunteers engaged via UNV's Online Volunteering service have been helping Kyrgyz youth by assisting with the formulation of a Government White Paper. (UNV)
Online volunteers bring new perspectives to Kyrgyzstan youth policy
12 August 2008
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Perth, Australia: Volunteers engaged via the UNV Online Volunteering service have been helping to design youth policy for the Government of Kyrgyzstan. Read
More about: Civil society  ICT  Online volunteering  Youth
Countries:  Australia  Kyrgyzstan
The vegetables grown by youth volunteers taking part in a UNV-led project show that desertification is not inevitable in Ethiopia. (UNV)
Youth volunteers hold back the desert in Ethiopia
03 August 2008
Amhara and Oromia States, Ethiopia: A UNV-led youth volunteering project is helping to combat desertification in Ethiopia by teaching young people about the environment and putting them to work in their communities. Read
More about: Environment  Youth
Countries:  Ethiopia
UNDP Ukraine Resident Representative Francis O'Donnell (left) and Deputy Resident representative Joanna Kazana-Wisniowiecka (centre) discuss proceedings with UNV senior programme specialist Jamshed Kazi. (Philip Sen/UNV)
Getting together for volunteerism in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
11 July 2008
Kiev, Ukraine: Building civil society in the former Eastern bloc countries presents some unique challenges. Along with local partners, UNV and UNDP are working together to boost the role of volunteerism there. Read
More about: Civil society  Youth
Countries:  Albania  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  Kazakhstan  Kosovo  Kyrgyzstan  Serbia  Ukraine  Uzbekistan
Other languages: en français  
Student volunteers at the University of Choco in a workshop facilitated by UNV. (UNV)
Harnessing student volunteers to help Colombia's displaced
19 June 2008
Quibdó, Colombia: According to UNHCR, 3 million Colombians have been displaced by ongoing civil conflict, the largest group of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the world. UNV in Colombia is supporting a project for university volunteers to share their energy and skills with these people. Read
More about: Refugees & displaced people  Youth
Countries:  Colombia
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