Do I like it all the time? No! Do I complain sometimes? Of course!... Then on the flip side, there is so much to be grateful for. I have grown much stronger emotionally and mentally and have a better understanding of myself. Read

UNV volunteers took time out to assist an orphanage as part of their International Volunteer Day (IVD) activities. Read

This experience has enriched me and has given me a force to continue with volunteer work to improve services for the community. The same spirit and force that I noticed in people with whom I worked. Read

"The ones who are now going to school are the ones who were sniffing glue and sleeping in the streets." Read

Energy efficiency programmes combined with the development of renewable energy sources will boost energy supply in Kyrgyzstan. Under the Shell 'Project Better World' initiative in cooperation with UNV, I served as an energy efficiency consultant to an environmental NGO. Read

A Spanish university volunteer working with Cisco in India talks about his experiences as an 'after hours' volunteer in Lapierre's 'City of Joy' - Kolkata. Read

It was not until I went on a UNV-facilitated mission through the Shell corporate volunteering programme 'Project Better World' that I came to understand the true meaning of the word 'volunteering' and the feeling of belonging it creates. Read

By developing alternative economic activities and finding ways that local people can engage in and even benefit from the conservation process, projects as ours are able to help make local people part of the solution instead of the problem. Read

My name is Wayne A. Bacale and I am from the Philippines. My primary motivation for online volunteering is to share my knowledge and skills in report writing, editing, project monitoring and evaluation, and volunteer management while at the same time learning new strategies in this area of specialization. Read

You're not seen as a 'hero' who brings wealth and development, but you’re more seen as a person who can support a developing plan initiated at local level by the country’s people. Read