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Volunteers, this is your moment.  Celebrate International Volunteer Day 2009!

IVD offers an opportunity for volunteer organizations and individual volunteers to concretely show their contributions to peace and development. Over the years, rallies, parades, community volunteering projects, environmental awareness, free medical care and advocacy campaigns have all featured prominently on IVD.

Recognizing the crucial role volunteers play in addressing environmental issues, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme launched the global campaign 'Volunteering for our Planet' to promote voluntary effort for the environment. 'Volunteering for our Planet' is the UNV contribution to the UN campaign to Seal the Deal in Copenhagen. Since the website launched in October, tens of thousands of people have visited the website, www.VolunteeringForOurPlanet.org, to register the time that they spend on a voluntary basis, helping communities to adapt and innovate and to mitigate the causes of climate change.



Remember, every action makes a difference. Every hour counts.

Share your IVD ideas, events and resources. 
Read about people volunteering for our planet and see them in action.
Go to www.unvolunteers.org for more stories and information.

14 December 2009
Voluntary environmental action exceeds 1.5 million hours  

Bonn, Germany: Thousands of volunteers around the world have registered more than 1.5 million hours of effort to tackle climate change and other environmental issues, as part of a campaign to promote International Volunteer Day on 5 December.

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme launched the global campaign 'Volunteering for our Planet' to promote voluntary effort for the environment.  Read article

16 December 2009
Bolsas ecológicas contra el cambio climático 
Captación de firmas –para pedir que se selle un acuerdo en la Conferencia sobre el Clima de Copenhague– en uno de los stands dispuestos durante la conmemoración del DIV en Tegucigalpa. (programa VNU)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Con el objetivo de sensibilizar a la población hondureña sobre el cambio climático y sus efectos dañinos para el medio ambiente, se celebró el DIV promoviendo el uso de bolsas ecológicas.  Read article
More about: Honduras  Environment
15 December 2009
Reflexión sobre la importancia de voluntariado y medio ambiente 
Una vecina del Barrio Lempira de Juticalpa (izquierda) colaborando en el traslado de los árboles junto con Alexis Sagastume, Coordinador de proyecto. (programa VNU)
Juticalpa , Honduras: En el Barrio Lempira, el Día Internacional de los Voluntarios se conmemoró con actividades para reflexionar sobre la importancia del voluntariado y sobre cómo éste puede contribuir al desarrollo humano y de las comunidades.  Read article
More about: Honduras  Environment
11 December 2009
Adopting green lifestyle habits 
Stand called ‘The Ocean’, where volunteers encouraged children to make drawings related to the sea; children would then write what they thought they could do to help protect the sea. (UNV)
Ha Noi, Viet Nam: Two hundred young people, including volunteers, people with disabilities and those living with HIV participated in a variety of activities and discussions on environmental issues at an Environmental Youth Camp held on 5 December.  Read article
More about: Viet Nam  Environment
11 December 2009
Volunteers plant 1,000 trees in rural Khartoum by Eszter Farkas, Hungarian UNV volunteer Public Information Officer in UNMIS
Ikhlas (left) and Viviana Olivetto, UNMIS UNV volunteer Return Reintegration Recovery Officer, carrying a tree to be planted in the courtyard of Wawesi secondary school for girls. (Eszter Farkas)
Khartoum, Sudan: Arriving in five buses at the desert village of Wawisi, 50 kilometres north of Khartoum, 150 volunteers set out with the local community to plant 1,000 trees in commemoration of International Volunteer Day on 5 December.  Read article
More about: Sudan  Environment
10 December 2009
Assainir l’environnement en milieu scolaire  
Plantation d'arbres au collège Dantokpa de Cotonou au Bénin à l'occasion de la Journée internationale des Volontaires en 2009. Les volontaires préparent les élèves à intégrer le corps des volontaires béninois. (programme VNU)
Cotonou, Bénin: Les manifestations de la Journée internationale des Volontaires (JIV) ont eu lieu le vendredi 4 décembre à Cotonou, au Collège d’Enseignement Général (CEG) de Dantokpa, où les volontaires du Bénin se sont joints aux élèves et enseignants du collège pour des activités d’assainissement et de plantation d’arbres pour un environnement plus sain.  Read article
More about: Benin  Environment
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