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

About 4,000 young people celebrating the 1 May holiday at Varela beach in the north of Guinea-Bissau were touched by the cleaning-up activity that UNV organized in cooperation with local development association Associação para Desenvolvimento de Varela. Read

A UNV volunteer finds that people are in need of his volunteer spirit when flooding hits rural areas in the Okavango Delta. Read

UNV volunteers in Kosovo working as Regional Youth Associates mobilized 200 youths to take environmental action for Earth Day - cleaning neighbourhoods, planting trees and learning about nature. Read

When Victoire Rio came to Mostar and announced her intention to organize a model UN, the feedback was rather negative. "They thought it is simply impossible here," recalls Ms. Rio. Fortunately, they were not right. Read

We believe that by giving practical knowledge and this certification to disabled students, we are making not only economically independent workers but self-sufficient citizens - of this city, of this country and of the world. Read

The impact of our work may not be immediate and visible, but people have respect for it and view it as exemplary - and sometimes strange… we foreigners giving up their easy lives to come and assist them. Read

What do UNV volunteers do on a Sunday afternoon? Well, they actually volunteer… such as one group of UNV volunteers which assisted the Italian Consul  in distributing donations to orphans. Read