Bonn, Germany: Volunteers are making a significant impact on environmental programmes through the internet. Since 2000, online volunteers engaged via the UNV Online Volunteering service have undertaken 1,350 environmental assignments. On World Environment Day, 5 June, more than 100 online volunteers are involved in current initiatives. Read

Kabul, Afghanistan: Ugandan volunteer Maurice Tukamuhebwa explains how his extensive information technology experience is proving invaluable to Afghanistan - a cold but beautiful country that he has already come to love. Read

... the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) to provide internet-based learning and IT skills training in ... Read

Lahore, Pakistan: Volunteering becomes even more meaningful and amazing when a full-time mother from a developing country like Pakistan decides to make a difference by using a computer while sitting at home. Amera Salman Yunus, a mother of three who lives in Lahore, is such an example. In an e-mail interview, Amera explains her experience as an online volunteer and the contribution she has been making towards the achievement of the Millennium Developments Goals (MDGs). Read

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme and its Online Volunteering (OV) service today announced the winners of its “Online Volunteers of the Year” award for 2005. Read

Bonn, Germany: ACDA s engagement with online volunteers started in 2003 through its affiliation with RESPECT International, a Canadian NGO that links refugee communities with a network of online volunteers from the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme s Online Volunteering (OV) service*. RESPECT and online volunteers work together to increase awareness of refugee issues by connecting non-refugee and refugee students and by raising funds and materials to assist schools serving refugee populations. Read

Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lankan Ministry of Health has realized that billions of rupees are wasted each year on improper drug management. This financial loss is due in part to limited monitoring facilities resulting in an inability to manage how drugs are distributed and used.  Here's where Aung Myo Htet, from Myanmar, a UN Volunteer comes in. Read

Lusaka, Zambia: "I was a UN Volunteer in the Maldives for more than 2 years supporting rural atoll islands under the Maldives government poverty alleviation project of United Nations Volunteers (UNV) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP)." Read

Colima, Mexico: Mexico’s Universidad de Colima and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme have officially launched the Latin American United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) University Volunteer Network. Universidad de Colima is the first institution to coordinate a regional network within the University Network under UNITeS. Read

Bonn, Germany: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign is an effort by the United Nations to encourage countries to do more and to join forces in the fight against poverty, illiteracy, hunger, lack of education, gender inequality, child and material mortality, disease and environmental degradation.
Online volunteering activities contribute in many ways to each of the MDGs, directly or indirectly. For example: Read