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Youth voluntary action changes street children’s lives
19 November 2007
UNV has been working with the NGO Zemlja djece (Children's Earth) to improve the psycho-social condition of street children and youth, through a spectrum of various educational, counseling and recreational activities. Picture shows a local volunteer teaching a street child how to write.
Tuzla, Bosnia: Since the beginning of 2007, UNV has been working with the NGO Zemlja djece (Children's Earth) to improve the psycho-social condition of street children and youth, through a spectrum of various educational, counseling and recreational activities offered at the TELEX Teenage Centre. For Jasminka Cikaric and Hava Suljic, the Centre in Tuzla was their first real school.  The two former street children had never had formal education before coming here. (Read attached stories below) Read
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From Quetta to Barentu: A UN Volunteer’s journey from Pakistan to Eritrea
25 November 2005
UN Volunteer Adham Effendi poses with children in a camp for displaced people in Barendi, Eritrea.  Effendi, from Pakistan, started working as a UNV for the World Food Programme in August 2004. (UNV)
Barenta, Eritrea: My trip to my new destination was full of surprises. My flight was supposed to be at 8 a.m. in the morning. However, due to bad weather it was delayed. By the time I reached Dubai, I had only 45 minutes to get my connection for Sana’a. After spending almost four hours at Sana’a airport, I happily reached Asmara, and Africa, for the first time. Read
Countries:  Eritrea
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