Bonn, Germany: Working with UNICEF in Mali, UN Volunteer Chouahibou Nchamoun of Cameroon is focused on reducing the country’s child mortality rate. Read

Bonn, Germany: Since 2002, Intra-City Volunteerism (ICV) has been engaging and mobilizing citizens to improve their communities through activities in Esmeraldas/Ecuador, Falmouth/Jamaica, and Amran/Yemen. Read

Kampong Cham, Cambodia: Parvati Sharma (Bhutan) is a nurse and midwife. She studied in India, and during her more than 20 years of experience in health education and training she has visited most Asian countries. She is about to finish her UNV assignment in Kampong Cham and Stung Treng. In the following article she reflects upon her time as a UNV in Cambodia. Read

Nairobi, Kenya: A recent UNHCR Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) workshop in Nairobi, attended by delegates from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan discussed the incidence and impacts of harmful cultural traditions practised on women. Read

Dili, Timor-Leste: When one mentions the name of the world’s newest state, Timor-Leste, the one thing that immediately comes to mind is the civil strife that engulfed the country in 1999, as the people chose independence. The unrest has left behind deep scars, not just physically, but also on people’s souls. Timor-Leste, like most post-conflict states, faces enormous social, economic and political challenges. As the people face these challenges a bright ray of hope shines across the country.
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Rome, Italy/Bonn, Germany: In November 2003, Ms. Fanny Yago-Wienne of France flew to Burkina Faso to become the first UN Volunteer under UNV programme and World Food Programme initiative.  Read

Djibouti-City, Djibouti: The thirty or so Somali women and girls gathered near the Holl-Holl camp community garden, where visitors routinely leave with armfuls of papayas and mangoes, cannot read or interpret a map of their native country, Somalia. Read

Bonn, Germany: Travelling from Afghanistan's provincial capital of Herat towards the border with Iran, internally displaced persons (IDPs) are greeted by piles of rubble where family homes once stood - stark reminders of how difficult it is to start all over again in a country devastated by war. Read

Bonn, Germany: Peace accords brought an end to a decade of armed conflict in Niger in the late 1990s. For many ex-combatants, returning to civilian life was daunting. With the help of 12 UN Volunteers, however, 660 former ethnic Arab, Fulani and Toubou fighters have rediscovered their vocations. Benefiting from 95 small ventures under the N'Guigmi Peace Project in south-eastern Niger, they are earning an income and reintegrating into society. Read

Bonn, Germany: When Olexiy Vitte, a radiologist, and his wife Nataliya Vinnytska, a neurology specialist, arrived in Zanzibar, the people of Tanzania's largest island gladly welcomed their expertise. With no doctors working in these fields, thousands of Zanzibaris had no one to consult for the professional medical advice they offer. Read