Jakarta, Indonesia: UNV Indonesia organized environmental comic and song competitions with high schools. Read

Jakarta, Indonesia: The 'Discussion on Volunteerism for Disaster Management' workshop organized by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) alongside the UNDP Safer Communities through Disaster Risk Reduction (SC-DRR) project and UNV aimed at collecting ideas for the development of a framework on volunteerism as a measure of a strategic approach to provide a more effective response to disasters. Read

Jakarta, Indonesia: To help enhance communications about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a UN-Government project in Indonesia has turned to the expertise online volunteers can offer. Read

Jakarta and Teluk Mayalibit, Indonesia: Almost half of the total number of UNV volunteers in Indonesia are women, working on a variety of projects: here we introduce two of them. Read

Jakarta, Indonesia: UNV will play a major part in a new initiative in Indonesia, working alongside the Government and nine UN partners in the fight against poverty. The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Indonesia, El-Mostafa Benlamlih, said: "This programme shows how we can maximize our impact by combining our strengths." Read

Bonn, Germany: Volunteerism is one of the longest traditions in environmental activism, and community initiatives are invariably volunteer-based. Volunteers are to be found in conservation efforts around the world. Read

Jakarta, Indonesia: UNV volunteers in Indonesia - some of whom are people living with HIV - are deploying to study the impact of HIV/AIDS at the household level. UNV is also recruiting UNV volunteers to support the Indonesian Government manage the funding it receives for the battle against killer diseases. Read

Banda Aceh, Indonesia: In partnership with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, Acehnese musicians Mahrisal Rubi and Edy Erwinsyah released a song commemorating the second anniversary of the tsunami that hit several countries of South East Asia on 26 December 2004. Read

Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Norimasa Tochibayashi arrived in Indonesia on February 23, 2005. He had no job, no idea where he was heading and how he could help, and no contact numbers of people who would be willing to support him. He was only certain of one thing: he wanted to help those who most needed it after the December 26 tsunami. Read

Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Up to 100 people, many of them affected by the 2004 tsunami, participated in a ‘Volunteer Awareness Campaign’ organized this past Saturday, December 02, 2006 by United Nations Volunteers (UNV) in Banda Aceh. The event paved the way for the annual commemoration of the International Volunteer Day (IVD) on December 5th, a date proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985 to bring together volunteers from all walks of life, and draw attention to their important contributions to social development and peace building. Read