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Geoffrey Omon, Uganda, Judicial Systems Monitor, UNMIL
03 June 2008
UNV volunteer lawyer Geoffrey Omon meets with Ghanian military officer. (UNMIL/UNV)
I help the legal system operate as it should.

Under the Legal and Judicial Systems Support Division of UNMIL, I monitor, observe, advise and report on judicial processes in Lofa County – where the Liberian war originated. Read
Ayesha Noor, Bangladesh, Civil Affairs Expert, UNMIL
03 June 2008
UNV volunteer Ayesha Noor (far right) meeting people with the Assistant Superintendent for Development (centre) to help identify community driven district development projects. (UNMIL/UNV)
I build bridges and communication between UNMIL, Government and the people we serve. I encounter a great variety of tasks and problems - such as a bridge that literally needed rebuilding. Read
Addressing biodiversity through technology
22 May 2008
UNV volunteer Naji Sakhita's field is information technology, but his work contributes to helping the environment. (UNV)
The climate is in constant change... This was the main reason behind my application to become a UNV volunteer.

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The catalyst in me: Health care in Trinidad
16 May 2008
Among many other community activities at her station in Trinidad, UNV volunteer Dr. Floriza Palanas-Mendoza (centre) works with Tabaquite RC School Junior Girl Guides by giving health talks. (F. Palanas-Mendoza/UNV)
Volunteering to create change in society is like catalysis - and the volunteer is the catalyst - says UNV volunteer Floriza Palanas-Mendoza, MD. Read
More about: HIV/AIDS  Health
Life in a cold climate: Bringing IT to Afghan women
05 May 2008
UNV volunteer Maurice Tukamuhebwa. "I came to believe that Afghanistan has the most diverse and amazing landscape in the whole world." (M. Tukamuhebwa/UNV)
Ugandan volunteer Maurice Tukamuhebwa explains how his extensive information technology experience is proving invaluable to Afghanistan - a cold but beautiful country that he has already come to love. Read
More about: ICT
Countries:  Afghanistan  Uganda
Other languages: en français  
Service, awe and wonder: Volunteering in Trinidad & Tobago
26 February 2008
It has struck me in awe how the simple idea of being “Man for Others” from my small world in the eastern corridor of the Philippines, has brought me to the bigger stage where I can contribute as a UNV volunteer. Read
More about: Health
Countries:  Trinidad and Tobago
Letter from El Geneina
22 February 2008
The helicopter lifts up from El Geneina’s dusty airstrip, hovers momentarily over the Durti and Ardamata Camps for the internally displaced people, before heading east over wadi beds and roaming herds of camels.  It is always with a mix of excitement and anxiety that I travel to Zalingei, a town in the eastern part of West Darfur. Read
More about: Human rights
Countries:  Sudan
UNV volunteers on the Silk route
14 February 2008
From left: Adele Del Sordi, Bettina Schucan, Rahel Hurzeler and Vanessa Vesnaver during the UNV Sub-Regional Retreat in Kyrgyzstan (UNV, 2008)
There were four of us, UNV Interns, at the Sub-Regional Retreat organized in the summer of 2007 by the UNV country offices in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. We had a retreat recently, and it was a wonderful experience. We had the possibility to get to know the realities in these three countries, to bond and feel like ONE Central Asia Team and to enjoy the glorious scenario of Issyk-Kul lake, in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

For us, it was the perfect occasion to share our feelings and experiences and to compare how each succeeded in adapting to a completely new working and living reality. We discussed similarities and differences of the three Central Asian countries and compared our UNV experiences, which we found very different among each other, though  equally challenging and important in the personal growth of all of us. Read
Countries:  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Uzbekistan
'Impartial' international UNV volunteers help feed Somalis
14 February 2008
Children in Merca, Somalia benefit from a "Food For Education” programme organised by the World Food Programme and supported by United Nations Volunteers. (Saidamon Bodamaev, Somalia, 2008)
International UNV volunteers make up nearly 10 per cent of World Food Programme's international staff in Somalia. The perceived impartiality of international staff, says the WFP head in the country, is useful in facing local clans' sensitivities.
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I learned a great lesson myself
12 February 2008
From April 16th to 27th 2007 John Kelly (from Tarrytown, NY) and I (Curitiba, Brazil) participated in a joint United Nations – Kraft Volunteer mission in Ecuador supporting FINE (Fundación para la Integración del Niño Especial), a non-profit, socially engaged organization operating in the Quito region, which helps poor and handicapped people, in particular youths over 15 years with Down syndrome. Read
Countries:  Ecuador

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