05 May 2009
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
More about: Environment Youth
Countries: Guinea-Bissau
30 April 2009
A UNV volunteer finds that people are in need of his volunteer spirit when flooding hits rural areas in the Okavango Delta. Read
More about: Emergency relief
Countries: Botswana
22 April 2009
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
More about: Environment Youth
Countries: Kosovo
14 April 2009
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
Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina Netherlands
09 April 2009
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
06 April 2009
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
More about: Human rights
05 April 2009
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
Finding ways to talk
02 April 2009
For World Autism Awareness Day, Spanish university volunteer Roman Gonzalvo talks about his work with autistic children. Read
More about: Children People with disabilities
Countries: Kyrgyzstan Spain
12 March 2009
At the beginning of my assignment, I wondered about the rationale for posting me, a UNV volunteer, in a country which has achieved most of the Millennium Development Goals. But despite all the achievements of the past 20 years, development challenges and inequalities still persist in Thailand... Read
More about: Governance Poverty
06 March 2009
In conformity with the Secretary-General’s 'Delivering as One' project, UN agencies in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, observed an official opening of the UN Joint Office. Read
More about: Civil society Peace & conflict resolution
Countries: Liberia





