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Photo story: The talking treatment
16 July 2010
UNV volunteer Fatima Daing works with voluntary groups in Port Loko to help People Living with HIV. (P. Sen/UNV)
Port Loko, Sierra Leone: It's in Fatima Diang's mandate to encourage volunteerism in the communities she works with and playing a part in keeping vulnerable people fed. Read
More about: Civil society  Focus on food  HIV/AIDS
Countries:  Sudan
Keeping the wheels turning
23 June 2010
UNV volunteer Ernest Merriman-Johnson from Sierra Leone at work in the Transport Section in Gbarnga, Liberia. (P. Sen/UNV)
Gbarnga, Liberia: Without UNV volunteers like these, UNMIL's task in the remote parts of Liberia would be far harder. Read
More about: Peace & conflict resolution
Countries:  Liberia  Philippines  Russian Federation
The Japanese volunteer brokering a balance for youth
01 June 2010
UNV volunteer Natsuko assisted Mohamed F. Bango through UNDP's partnership with Action Aid. "I'm popularly known of 'man of god'... because of certain changes I have made," says Mohamed. "When Action Aid first came along we tried to run away because we thought they were police. But now I say thanks for their good help. Here is the place I used to hang around, making these cheap mud blocks for building. Smoking under a tree." (P. Sen/UNV)
Freetown, Sierra Leone: Natsuko Kaneyama is a UNV volunteer Programme Manager for Youth and Peacebuilding. Her job is to help young people get out of poverty and into the economy. Read
More about: Civil society  Education  Marginalized groups  Peace & conflict resolution  Poverty  Youth
Countries:  Japan
Photo story: Brokering a balance for youth
27 May 2010
One of the NGOs that UNV volunteer Natsuko Kaneyama work with in Freetown is the Youth Development Movement. Here, Fatmata Koroma writes on the blackboard, where she has been practicing how to prepare a menu card. Six months ago she was completely illiterate. "I couldn't even write my name. I've now learned how to do much more." The youth learn business skills for the hospitality trade, from waitressing and cooking to accounting and bookkeeping. They also learn about community skills and family living, what the NGO calls "attitudes for life". (P. Sen/UNV)
Freetown, Sierra Leone: Natsuko Kaneyama from Osaka, Japan, aims to help Sierra Leone's young people get out of poverty and into the economy. You can meet some of these youth here. Read
More about: Civil society  Marginalized groups  Peace & conflict resolution  Poverty  Youth
Countries:  Japan
Answering calls for justice
20 April 2010
Sierra Leone has emerged from years of conflict, but with under 100 practicing lawyers in the country it has a long way to travel before human rights are fully entrenched. (P. Sen/UNV)
Freetown, Sierra Leone: As a legal expert and a UNV volunteer, Elvis Enoh-Tanyi has an important and enormous task to do to help civil society uphold the rule of law in Sierra Leone. Read
More about: Civil society  Human rights  Marginalized groups  Peace & conflict resolution
Countries:  Cameroon
Answering calls for justice (part 2)
19 April 2010
Freetown, Sierra Leone: UNV volunteer Elvis Enoh-Tanyi has brought the Bar Association of Sierra Leone into the fore, creating and establishing the Sierra Leone Bar Association Legal Aid Scheme. He also challenged the Bar Association to play a watchdog role, and to take positions on issues regarding the rule of law. Read
More about: Civil society  Gender  Human rights  Marginalized groups  Peace & conflict resolution
Countries:  Cameroon
Testing the water in Sierra Leone
13 April 2010
A graduate in agricultural engineering and in water management, Habib ur Rehman (right) worked across the Government and NGOs in his home country and in Kenya before coming to Sierra Leone. He says his inspiration to become a UNV volunteer was not only to get recognition for his skills and to learn more, but to be part of "the UN family and serve humanity". (UNV/P. Sen)
Freetown, Sierra Leone: There's two UNV volunteers who know from personal experience how difficult Sierra Leone's water and sanitation problem is – and they are among the people tasked to fix it. Read
More about: Governance  Peace & conflict resolution
Countries:  Pakistan
Bins for the beach in Freetown
02 February 2010
Freetown, Sierra Leone: With support from the Government and private sector, in Sierra Leone volunteers got into the swing of International Volunteer Day with drama, debates and a clean-up of Lumley Beach. Read
More about: Environment
Preparing to poll Sudan's future
02 November 2009
Constituency Election Officer, Lina Kun Beliew from Mankien Constituency of Mayom County in Unity State, inspecting Voter Registration materials, including Voter Registration Kits, Reporting Forms and Voter Information Materials. (A. Mikulska/UNMIS)
Khartoum and Juba, Sudan: Registration of voters has begun for Sudan’s historic 2010 election, and UNV volunteers will be making a significant contribution to the electoral process. Read
More about: Electoral assistance
Countries:  Sudan
The mission mechanic in Chad
18 August 2009
Adama Sheriff from Sierra Leone is a UNV volunteer Vehicle Technician with the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. (Harald Franzen/UNV)
N'Djamena, Chad: As a technician, I always strive to be innovative, bringing new ideas and alternative approaches in resolving technical problems... Over the last nine months with MINURCAT, I have performed in various capacities, ranging from those of a purely technical nature to administrative tasks too. Read
More about: Peace & conflict resolution
Countries:  Chad

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