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A pillar for peacekeepers and communities
03 August 2010
Irish volunteer Derek O’Rourke (front right) with Josephine Lee (centre), Liberian UNV volunteer Property Management Assistant, and James Mperese (left), Ugandan UNV volunteer Facilities Management Assistant, during activities in South Murta. (UNMIS)
Kadugli, Sudan: Working with the United Nations Mission in the Sudan, UNV volunteer Derek O’Rourke's role is to make life as comfortable as possible for peacekeepers in the field. He has also initiated a UNV group supporting volunteer activities with communities, promoting environmental awareness and community voluntary action. Read
Feeding the volunteer spirit - Port Loko
17 July 2010
UNV volunteer Fatima Diang from Sudan is assigned to the WFP Sub Office in Port Loko, Sierra Leone. "It’s difficult just to live here at my station," she comments. "There are no hotels or restaurants or power supply, and I was renting a house, but it was a security risk so I moved to the WFP compound and now live in a container. But whenever I’m visiting the health centres and I meet the small children, and talk to them and their mothers – it’s so special to be able to hear from them how the WFP support is helping them.  It makes mothers happy to have a healthy child – and it excites me to see a child’s health improving." (P. Sen/UNV)
Port Loko, Sierra Leone: At the Port Loko health centre, UNV volunteer Fatima Daing and WFP assist volunteer-involving organizations addressing HIV/AIDS. Read
Countries:  Sierra Leone
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
Countries:  Sierra Leone
Volunteerism and the Millennium Development Goals: Success stories from the UNV programme
13 July 2010
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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More about: MDGs
Countries:  Egypt  Jordan  Morocco
UNV statement on release of Darfur hostages
23 December 2009
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
Countries:  Zimbabwe

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