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Samsunnahar (centre) is a UN Volunteer Community Organizer serving with UNDP in Bangladesh.
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Samsunnahar (centre) is a UN Volunteer Community Organizer serving with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh. ©UNV, 2021
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Hadeel Kadhim is a UN Volunteer Monitoring Officer serving with the UN Monitoring Mechanism in Turkey. ©UNV, 2021
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Christel Bercachy (front) is a national UN Volunteer serving with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Lebanon. Here, she is seen during a training session at the Municipality of Bourj Hammoud, on the first day of the Rapid Damage Assessment of the Port of Beirut blast, August 2020. ©UNV, 2020
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Christel Bercachy (front) is a national UN Volunteer serving with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Lebanon. Here, she is seen during a training session at the Municipality of Bourj Hammoud, on the first day of the Rapid Damage Assessment of the Port of Beirut blast, August 2020. ©UNV, 2020
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Luis Alvarado (centre) is an indigenous UN Volunteer serving with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Latin America. ©Santiago ArcosUNV, 2021
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Luis Alvarado (centre) is an indigenous UN Volunteer serving with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Latin America. ©Santiago Arcos/UNV, 2021
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Joelma Pereira (right) international UN Volunteer Communications Officer in a field mission in Moma district, Nampula province in Mozambique takes photos of survivors of the cyclone Gombe in March 2022.
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Meet the women health champions of Africa
West and Central Africa
02 March 2023
Dilyara Begalykyzy (left) UN Youth Volunteer Event Planning Assistant at the UNDP Accelerator Lab during an event preparation.
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Digital solutions support social change
Europe and the CIS
01 March 2023
Cristina Comunian (third from right), international UN Volunteer Specialist celebrates World Earth Day with her colleagues at the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in Fiji.
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Storytelling to address gender-based violence
Asia and the Pacific
28 February 2023
UN Volunteers, Kawtar Abendag (right) and Ariane Massy (left) serve with UN Women in Morocco and enhance Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting.
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Powering gender inclusive budgets in Morocco
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27 February 2023
UN Volunteers with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have been instrumental in responding to the needs of people displaced by the war in Ukraine.
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One year on: UN Volunteers epitomize resilience and solidarity in emergency response
Europe and the CIS
24 February 2023
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Online Volunteers build digital UNDP tool
West and Central Africa
21 February 2023
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State of the World's Volunteerism Report 2022

The State of the World’s Volunteerism Report is a flagship UN publication designed to strengthen understanding on volunteerism and demonstrate its universality, scope and reach in the twenty-first century. The 2022 edition bears the title Building Equal and Inclusive Societies. 

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Asia and the Pacific
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East and Southern Africa
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Latin America and the Caribbean
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West and Central Africa
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Europe and the CIS
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Celine Rehring (Germany) is a former UN Volunteer Judicial Affairs Officer with MINUSCA. She then moved on to a position as Judicial Affairs Officer with MINUSMA, where this photo was taken in 2019.
"I caught the UN virus!" a former UN Volunteer from Germany recounts
Sudanese refugee women prepare to fill their containers with precious water at a camp in eastern Chad.
Sharing hard-earned expertise to increase groundwater resources
Raymonda Chamoun, national UN Volunteer Specialist Water/Irrigation Engineer with UNDP Lebanon monitors the implementation of irrigation canal rehabilitation project in Sir El-Denniyeh, north Lebanon.
Facilitating the flow of water in Lebanon
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