Being a volunteer means serving without conditions, accepting certain sacrifices, and offering unselfishly one's talents to assist and support mission programmes. Read

This was a dream came true... Way back during my boyhood in Kenya, I used to see people building schools, hospitals and so on. Upon enquiry I came to realize they were volunteers, and I would ask myself how I could be one of them. Read

I wear two caps: I have both administrative and technical responsibilities. As the Officer-in-Charge, I am responsible for the daily running of the office... As technical staff, my daily tasking includes performing spatial analyses as part of mission spatial decision support systems. Read

I realized I was making a big difference in my job. Read

If you notice the white gown I wear for my own safety, it is also sponsored by Medical Centre (Star Base) in addition with a lot of lab consumables.  So my team nicknamed me 'Water Doctor'.  Now, I'm the only 'Water Doctor' at UNMIL, and I hope I'll have an opportunity to share and transfer my skills, knowledge and experiences to enlist more.  This is one of my expectations from volunteerism. Read

Thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech, I was never in doubt why a single man's dream was strong enough to change the entire world. It was a dream backed with an undying passion... I knew I had a dream too. It was a dream of equal access to safe drinking water and improved public health outcomes for the world's poor. Read

There comes a time in your life that, for personal or professional reasons, you need your work to count more than the number of drunk drivers, or chest pains seen in one hour... When you are on a personal and professional path that includes volunteer work, that path is never complete without the UN, so I volunteered with UNV simply because it made sense. Read

I am constantly approached by both state prosecutors and defence counsel for advice... and I am always on the move, speaking to rape victims and their families to come to court to help the state to prosecute alleged rapists. Read

The printer crackles, winding on the first regional reports. Regional offices in the North, the Grand Anse, the West, and the South too send breaking news to the central Office of Civil Affairs. Read

The UN's International Literacy Day falls on 8 September. UNV is helping to improve literacy around the world, for example by supporting The Times of India newspaper's ambitious 'Teach India' campaign. Here one of the national UNV volunteers working on the project gives an insight into his role. Read