Thanks to the ever-energetic team of Jens, Natalie and Rene, we had a very warm bonding at our first-ever UNV Family Day on Sunday 7 June 2009. Read

In celebration of the International Day of the African Child, commemorated globally on 16 June, UNV volunteers serving with the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in Bentiu helped organize a day-long event. Read

UNV organized a one-day event with local students to promote recycling and other environmentally-friendly practices in Kosovo. Read

Participants joined in a rally and marched around the local area led by a local marching ‘band’, carrying banners and chanting slogans to deliver messages for raising awareness of environment issues and climate change. Read

Eco-volunteers of all ages and more than a hundred children and youth from volunteered to help UNV and its partners celebrate World Environment Day. Read

To mark World Environment Day, national UNV volunteers in Myanmar together with UNHCR core staff and working partners planted indigenous mango tree saplings in the premises of the UNHCR hub. Read

People are asked to pick up stones to symbolize the number of people they have lost to HIV/AIDS. Then seated in a circle and in a solemn mood, an individual is asked to talk to the others about the stones they have collected. Read

On 29 May, in recognition of World Environment Day celebrated on 5 June 2009, the UNV support team from the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) planted several indigenous trees in the green areas of Congo Batiment in Kinshasa. Read

I applied for the Community Capacity Enhancement Programme (CCEP) in response to HIV/AIDS because as much as I am affected indirectly, it affects everyone directly. It’s no longer about health issues and saving individual lives, it is about saving the nation, my nation. Read

The MDGs are very serious objectives; however, they are raised within a political context. Different audiences may need new explanations or approaches to be able to understand them. Read