Online volunteers add diversity and widen geographical spread to assist in e-government assessments across UN Member States.
Ninety-six UN Online Volunteers mobilized through the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme from across the globe engaged for the second time to collaborate with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) to process research surveys carried out across UN Member States for the UN E-Government Survey.
Till date, around 1,800 Indians have worked as international volunteers, but what makes Rupmani's case unique is the fact that she is the first differently-abled Indian to be selected for this role.
With UNAIDS, I worked with stigmatized groups of people that included homosexuals, sex workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Discussing socially sensitive issues with them opened my eyes to new perspectives and outlooks on life. It made me realize that, despite differences, we are all part of one humanity.
“I served with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. My six-month assignment helped me gain many invaluable experiences that contributed to my personal and professional growth,” says Karinda Chuntavorn, a UN Youth University Volunteer in Resource Mobilization. Her assignment was supported by the Agency for Volunteer Service (AVS) and the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Home Affairs Bureau (HAB).
In 2014, Karol Alejandra Arámbula Carrillo led a project as a Online Volunteer in partnership with The Red Elephant Foundation, based in India, the UNV Online Volunteering service and the MY World Global Survey on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, with the objective to position gender equality as one of the top priorities of international development.
Karol Alejandra Arámbula Carrillo (Mexico) has been a Online Volunteer since 2011. One of her motivations to join UNV’s Online Volunteering service was the desire to help organisations in other countries carry out their work, especially in the field of gender equality.
Advice for readers asking what they could do to help 20 million people facing the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria..
Open Editorial by Toily Kurbanov, UNV Deputy Executive Coordinator during a mission to India to discuss global priorities between the government and UNV.
The Republic of Korea furthers its support for the United Nations Volunteers scheme.
Interview with Olivier Adam, UNV Executive Director, on the occasion of a strategic dialogue with the Korean Foreign Ministry.
Immediately after the earthquake hit Nepal in April 2015, Anima Dhakal, a civil engineer, came to Karthali, Sindhupalchowk, to serve as a UN Youth Volunteer.
As one of the thirteen women who served as engineers in the demolition and debris management operations of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Anima supported the earthquake-affected areas by using her skills in a traditionally male-dominated field.
“Engineering is for boys while girls are supposed to study management and work in banks,” she recalls her uncle as saying when she was still a student asking for career advice years ago.
It is rather fitting that the first impression of Timor-Leste that UN Volunteer Sung-gil Lee recalls is the stifling heat he felt when he got off the plane from his home country, Korea, and stepped onto the Dili airport tarmac. That day in February, 2016, Sung-gil reported for his assignment as a UN Volunteer Specialist for Environment with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Soon he would be carrying out a host of duties to help Timor-Leste’s citizens take action against global warming.
