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Promoting gender equality online
08 March 2012
Hazel Alfon, UN Online Volunteer
Ghana: “I love this volunteer experience… giving a helping hand to achieving gender equality through promoting sustainable livelihoods.” Read
More about: Gender  ICT  MDG 3: Gender equality  Online volunteering
Countries:  Ghana  Philippines
Online volunteer for Goodness and Mercy Missions in Cameroon
15 December 2011
(Photo: Goodness and Mercy Missions, 2011)
Cameroon: Online volunteer Akanksha Shukla from India helped the Cameroonian NGO Goodness and Mercy Missions (GMM) improve its “Children education through women empowerment” project. The project aims to enable 100 women to secure their family income through palm oil trading, and send their children to school. Read
More about: Children  Online volunteering
Countries:  Cameroon
India celebrates IVD across the country
08 March 2011
Anoj Chhetri, the UNV Programme Officer for India (right) escorted Sam Sharpe, Head of the British Government Department of International Development in India (DFID) through an IVD 2010 photo exhibition held in New Delhi. The exhibit, which featured photos of tribal women volunteers, included descriptions of how volunteers have contributed towards achieving the MDGs by helping to address maternal and infant mortality among the tribal community or improve the livelihood of marginalised communities. (UNV, 2010)
New Delhi, India: International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2010 was celebrated all over India with a variety of impressive activities from a national essay and slogan competition to local panel discussions, a tree-planting and a human chain march to promote the MDGs and volunteerism. Read
More about: MDGs: General  Youth
First National UNV Volunteer Workshop focuses on the MDGs
07 September 2010
Group photo of the national UNV volunteers at a workshop in August 2010 in Manesar, Hariyana. (UNV/2010)
Manesar, India: UNV India organized a national UNV volunteer workshop from 27 to 28 August in Manesar, Hariyana. The workshop was the first of its kind in India for the more than 75 national UNV volunteers currently working in the country. Read
More about: MDGs  MDGs: General
Empowering grassroots governance
29 June 2010
This water tank in Saru (Hinjilicut block) was completed in 2009 at the request of the villagers themselves. It is used as a fish farm for small business development, not to mention its usefulness as a water storage facility for washing and other activities. Many of the people here belong to India’s ‘Scheduled Tribes’. The women of Saru joined together in this voluntary self-help group to help each other generate income and press for development projects such as the water tank. (P. Sen/UNV)
Ganjam, Orissa State, India: Empowering the poor to take ownership over development needs UNV volunteers like Minaram Patnaik to help communities and the authorities work together. Read
More about: Governance  Marginalized groups  Poverty

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