Aden, Yemen: With 20,000 new mouths to feed this year alone, one UNV volunteer working with the World Food Programme (WFP) in Yemen plays a vital part in managing a little-reported emergency. Read

On a recent visit to the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme’s headquarters in Bonn, Germany, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Yemen, Ms Flavia Pansieri, spoke to UNV’s communications unit on the focus of development activities in Yemen and the role of UN Volunteers in supporting this agenda. Read

Bonn, Germany: This is a story about Alaf, a 20-year old seamstress from Yemen. Alaf is deaf. She finished two years of vocational training in sewing in the Martyr Fadel El Halali Centre for vocational training for the disabled. The centre was established in 1989 by a UNDP/ILO project in co-operation with the Ministry of Social Affairs in Sana'a, Yemen. Read