The steady provision of jet fuel, petroleum, oil and lubricants is an essential part of daily life for 2,450 troops and 125 civilian personnel including UNV volunteers in the North Kivu province of DRC. Read

UNV volunteers Mariya Stoeva and Mohamed Sadiq Ameer are in the Democratic Republic of Congo to ensure that members of MONUC, the UN’s current largest mission, receive safe, quality food. Read

In the face of occasional violence, UNV volunteers are delivering much-needed development support to the people of Timor-Leste. UNV Support Officer Ms Remedios Vestil-Mondigo deals regularly with security threats like stone-throwing incidents on the road from the international airport, to which she travels twice or three times a day to greet incoming UNV volunteers. Read

Minh Vo, a Vietnamese online volunteer has been selected for the Online Volunteer of the Year Award 2006. In this interview she will share her experience of being an online volunteer. Read

Dennis Mairena, a UNV field officer in Colombia and UNV public information officer Sy Koumbo Singa Gali in the Democratic Republic of Congo talk about how UNV volunteers are in the "different dimension" and "go the extra mile". Read

A poem written by a UNV volunteer supporting MINUSTAH in Haiti. Read

In the end of August, Hanna Gabriella Snarberg, a UNV volunteer Press Officer with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura and the UNIFIL cameraman Bob Sullivan traveled with the Indian battalion’s (INDBATT) Public Information Officer Maj. Pandey and five other Indian military officers through their area of operations in South East Lebanon. The purpose: to get first-hand information on the level of destruction during the war  and to report on UNIFIL humanitarian assistance in South Lebanon. Read

Victoria Díaz-García, an Irish Aid sponsored UNV intern and Urs Bernhard, a Swiss sponsored UNV intern, have done the arduous six-day-long trip along Río Coco to provide gender training and technical monitoring to the indigenous Miskitu communities of Raití and Walakitán, two of the most Northeastern communities located in the department of Jinotega. Read

It took two UNV volunteers – from Nigeria and India – some community work to organize a successful Walk Against Child Hunger in just a month’s time in Trindidad and Tobago. Dr. Onuoha Clement describes how he and Dr. Veena Murlidhar extended voluntary work beyond their assignment as medical doctors to achieve this. Read

Deepty from India. Francesca from Italy. They belong to a multinational team of over 60 UNV volunteers helping local communities rebuild their houses in Indonesia’s Aceh and Nias provinces. They are also living the life of the local people and enjoying every bit of the experience. Read