N'Djamena, Chad: I make sure that everything is ready for the following day's aircraft movements in and out our mission's area of responsibility (AOR). Any time cargo or people have to move from one location to another, we provide the service. Read

Kigali, Rwanda: Acting as an organizational and communications focal point in the country for the field offices, regional UNHCR offices and headquarters in Geneva, I often feel like Shiva incarnate, my four arms at the ready as I multi-task with the various reporting and public relations tasks on my plate. Read

Cyangugu, Rwanda: When I arrived at my current duty station in the Rusizi district of Rwanda, I was faced with the task of maintaining UNHCR's Cyangugu Antenna Office, as well as managing the transit centre for refugees. Needless to say, this was not an easy task. Read

Bonn, Germany: Volunteerism is critical in responding to environmental and sustainable development challenges such as the preservation of biological diversity. Maintaining the diversity of nature is going to require the dedication of us all. "That means recognizing people who are already acting," said UNV Executive Coordinator Flavia Pansieri on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity. Read

Kinshasa, DR Congo: Kinshasa-based UNV volunteers working for MONUC marked IVD by having a ceremony for four UNV volunteer that died in 2007. Read

The year 2006 brought to fruition one of Africa’s longest anticipated elections:  for the first time in 45 years the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took to the polls.  The elections marked a significant step in the peace process in the DRC, which is rebuilding following the end of a six-year civil that cost 4 million lives in fighting, hunger and disease. Read

Lubumbashi, DR Congo : Elections stole the headlines in 2006, but volunteers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are quietly giving back to nature what it had been stripped of in the years before. Read

Bukavu, DR Congo: 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

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

Bonn, Germany: In 2006, over 7,500 UNV volunteers supported communities, non-governmental and civil society organizations as well as governments all over the world to foster sustainable development. In more than 140 countries, UNV volunteers, the majority of whom hail from developing countries themselves, worked in key areas such as poverty reduction, crisis recovery, elections support, governance and HIV/AIDS. Read