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

For World Autism Awareness Day, Spanish university volunteer Roman Gonzalvo talks about his work with autistic children. Read

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

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