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

Volunteerism is considered a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and a crucial renewable resource for social and environmental problem-solving throughout the world.

General Assembly resolution A/Res/56/38 asked the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme to provide technical cooperation in the field of volunteerism to realize its potential as a resource for attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). 

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The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is relieved at the release from captivity on Sunday 13 December of Ms Pamela Ncube, a UNV volunteer serving with the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), together with her UNAMID colleague Mr Patrick Winful. Read

Khartoum, Sudan: Arriving in five buses at the desert village of Wawisi, 50 kilometres north of Khartoum, 150 volunteers set out with the local community to plant 1,000 trees in commemoration of International Volunteer Day on 5 December. Read

Kassala, Sudan: I have learned through out my time as a volunteer that involving the refugees in natural resource management can greatly improve sustainability and promote a sense of ownership and responsibility. Read

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

Torit and Yei, Sudan: I define myself as an active example of willingness to cooperate and help others and, when deemed necessary, to change the world to make it a better place to live in. Now, as a UNV volunteer with the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) I have been given a great opportunity to be part of a team. Read

Khartoum, Sudan: UNV volunteer Astrede Karimi Mbaka provides mapping services which help the UN plan the complex logistics of a peacekeeping mission.

"I felt I needed to contribute my knowledge and skills for peace and development. I learnt about UNV, logged onto the website and found out what I had to do," she says. Read

Wau, Sudan: As a UNV volunteer Building Project Manager, Febe Chang gets involved with every aspect of the peacekeeping mission’s engineering needs – but despite the tough conditions she is never too busy to share her 15 years of engineering experience with others. Read

Bentiu, Sudan: In celebration of the International Day of the African Child, commemorated globally on 16 June, UNV volunteers serving with the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in Bentiu helped organize a day-long event. Read