This is our first meeting since we celebrated UNV’s 30th anniversary. So, colleagues and friends, I am here to tell you that there is indeed life after 30! During 2001, more than 5,000 UN Volunteers representing 160 nationalities served in 140 countries around the globe. Even as we speak, they are filling an astonishing array of assignments. Read

On September 11, at 8:30am I was on the 30th floor in Tower Two of the World Trade Center attending a training seminar. Fortunately, when the first plane hit Tower One, we were quickly evacuated. After reaching street level safely; after walking about two blocks down (in the span of about 3 minutes), I looked up and saw the second airplane crash into the mid-section of Tower Two. Read

Throughout my career, first as a medical practitioner in Pakistan and later as an advocate for women's health and rights in the international community, I have always had profound respect, appreciation and admiration for the work of volunteers. Read

Bonn, Germany: Helping others has been one of the driving forces of mankind, and a custom which one could probably relate to every nation in the world. In Yugoslavia, the custom of helping others, usually your neighbours, is called "moba". Read

Bonn, Germany: I am Brigitte Syamalevwe a volunteer against HIV/AIDS from Zambia, and I am a woman who has been living with HIV/AIDS for 10 years. Read