Chennai, India: Managed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National Service Scheme (NSS) aims to involve students in local communities through volunteerism. About 2.6 million students from 200 universities are now involved. Read

Kathmandu, Nepal: Participants joined in a rally and marched around the local area led by a local marching ‘band’, carrying banners and chanting slogans to deliver messages for raising awareness of environment issues and climate change. Read

Lalitpur, Nepal: Thousands of female volunteers who roam the Nepali countryside providing health education and primary health care rely on UNV expertise and financial support to help this major volunteering programme run smoothly. Read

Kathmandu, Nepal: Following Nepal's first democratic elections, UNV volunteers are exploring opportunities to sustain volunteerism and civil society in the country. Read

Kathmandu, Nepal: "The ones who are now going to school are the ones who were sniffing glue and sleeping in the streets." Read

Kathmandu, Jhapa and Damak, Nepal: As well as a street cleaning campaign, UNV cooperated with UNESCO and local NGOs in Kathmandu to distribute books to orphan children. There were also events in the Bhutanese refugee camps of eastern Nepal. Read

Kathmandu, Nepal:  In Kathmandu, a big street cleaning campaign was organized and held in cooperation with Government bodies, local and international NGOs and groups of street children and youth. This event was with the specific purpose of raising awareness on environmental issues as well as for a general aim of promoting volunteerism. Read

Kathmandhu Valley, Nepal: It was not until I went on a UNV-facilitated mission through the Shell corporate volunteering programme 'Project Better World' that I came to understand the true meaning of the word 'volunteering' and the feeling of belonging it creates. Read

Kathmandhu, Nepal: The theme of the day was highlighting the human rights of street children, and to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and poverty. All these messages were reflected in plays and songs performed by the former street children of Prayas ('effort'), now going to school. Read

Kathmandu, Nepal: To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, UNV and the children of Prayas staged a play on some of the causes of poverty and how we can work towards eradicating it. Read