Bonn, Germany: In time of disaster volunteers do what they have to do. Like the UNV in Nicaragua who has refused to be helicoptered to safety and insists she stay on to help. Like the Programme Officer in Honduras who has diverted his entire team to emergency relief and spent up his discretionary fund on having thirty national UNVs inventory shelters and oversee food distribution. Read

Bonn, Germany: Two years ago, the National Centre for Disabled Persons was founded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Centre was very much needed in Cambodia. The devastating civil war and the hazardous pervasiveness of landmines have taken a heavy toll. One in every 250 Cambodians has lost a limb to a mine, and while casualties have fallen from around 500 to 150 a month, over five million mines are believed to remain undetonated. Read

Bonn, Germany: As a medical doctor and nutritionist in Mali, I am assigned to one of the poorest countries in the world. I work in a deprived rural community of 2,800 inhabitants in the Mopti region, some 800 km from the capital. Read

Bonn, Germany: Anyone on the ground will tell you that this is the worst natural disaster to hit Central America in two centuries". That was a WFP spokesman's summary. Read

Bangui, Central African Republic: Security Council resolution 1201 of 15 October 1998 will go down as a red letter day here. The resolution extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA). Read

Bonn, Germany: Publications by UN Volunteers in 1998. Read