Bonn, Germany: A UNV Action Team comprised of 15 United Nations Volunteers working in strife-torn Sierra Leone have donated time after hours to deliver safe drinking water to a school for children with polio. Read

Freetown, Sierra Leone: UN Volunteers began arriving in Sierra Leone over the weekend to help prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections slated for May. Read

Freetown, Sierra Leone: Francis Kabina was evacuated from war-wracked Sierra Leone three times, once after anti-government rebels beat him severely and stole his two-way radio unit and the vehicle he was driving. Shaken and disillusioned, the 33-year-old Tanzanian UN Volunteer nearly lost his life under the menace of armed guerrillas. Read

Bonn, Germany: The year 2000 saw thousands of East Timorese crossing borders to get home after post-referendum violence forced them to flee as refugees. UN Volunteers also came back as soon as possible to help sow seeds for a new nation. From fisheries to forestry, from trade to treasuries, they are playing an integral role with the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). Read

Bonn, Germany: The 70 UN Volunteers serving with the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) - providing supplies, functioning vehicles and satellite communications - do not lay down their tools at the end of the day. In evenings and on weekends, they get together as the UNV Action Team and extend their volunteer services to districts of the capital Freetown, such as in Kissy. Read

Bonn, Germany: Fifty UN Volunteer specialists attached to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) have returned from Banjul, The Gambia, where they were relocated earlier this month due to the deteriorating security situation. Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) has recruited and deployed more than 60 volunteer specialists to take up a range of assignments providing services to the recently established United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL). Read

Bonn, Germany: The first of 70 volunteer specialists recruited by the Bonn-based United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) arrived this week in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown to take up a range of assignments providing services to the recently established United Nations mission in the strife-torn West African country. Read