National UN Volunteer Project and Camp Management Assistant Andrea Cuisana (right) and David Barreno, national UN Volunteer Procurement and Logistics Assistant, served with IOM in Manta, Ecuador, helping rebuild affected communities after the 2016 earthquake. (©Juan Diego Pérez Arias/UNV, 2016)

UN Volunteer Naw Wan Gay serves with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), providing services for refugees in Baan Mai Nai Soi Temporary Shelter Area, Thailand. (©Panupong Changchai/UNV, 2016)

UN Volunteer Rupmani Chhetri (centre, India) addresses UN Secretary-General António Guterres in sign language. Rupmani served as a UN Volunteer Advocacy Specialist for Disabilities in Ukraine. (©UNV, 2017)

Ismael Abdou Mahamadou is a national UN Volunteer supporting the World Food Program in Maradi, Niger, as Field Monitor Assistant. Here, he participates in training on quality seed collection, as part of participatory community planning. (©UNV, 2018)

UN Volunteer Teacher Farah Chahine talking to one of the students during the recess, while another child embraces Layal Ammar, also a UN Volunteer Teacher, Ramallah School in Chatila Palestinian Refugee camp. Farah and Layal are refugees from Palestine in Lebanon, teaching Palestinian refugees twice displaced from Syria to Lebanon. (©UNV, 2016)