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17 December 2007
Youth empowerment, strengthening democracy in Afghanistan 
Kabul, Afghanistan: The IVD 2007 celebrations in Afghanistan were focused on involving the Afghan Youth to volunteer. In cooperation with numerous UN agencies and Local Youth Councils, UNV programme (UNDP and UNAMA) organized the Local Youth Councils and Youth Parliament to come up with project proposals within the framework of the MDGs.   Read article
More about: MDGs: General  Youth
27 November 2007
Volunteers organize countrywide events for IVD in Afghanistan 
Kabul, Afghanistan: To mark International Volunteer Day (IVD) on 5 December, the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) in Afghanistan, together with Local Youth Councils (LYC)  are planning to organize several activities around different regions of Afghanistan to promote volunteerism and to raise awareness on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  Read article
More about: MDGs: General
05 June 2007
Volunteers target children in effort to eradicate polio by James McCarten
Kandahar, Afghanistan: Health officials launched a different sort of Afghan offensive Sunday as a brigade of volunteer soldiers armed with clipboards, chalk and tiny bottles of vaccine fanned out across the city, hunting an invisible enemy that preys on the poor and the young.  Read article
From: Macleans.ca
More about: Health  MDG 6
16 March 2007
Taliban prevents volunteers, health workers to vaccinate children 
Gulalai, 45, a resident of Madabat village, 15 km east of Tarinkot, provincial capital of Afghanistan's central Oruzgan province would like to vaccinate her children against polio, but insecurity in the restive province has prevented health officials and volunteers from visiting her. Polio is endemic in Afghanistan (© Ali Mohammad Khoshal/IRIN)
Tarinkot, Afghanistan: Taliban and other anti-government insurgents are preventing health workers and volunteers to vaccinate children against polio in remote parts of Afghanistan.  Read article
From: AlertNet
More about: Health  MDG 6
08 March 2007
'Women & children are the first targets of war' by Ali Hakimi
Fatima Gailani believes girls and women should be given the same opportunities as boys and men to become educated and develop their vocational and professional skills.(IFRC)
The president of the Afghan Red Crescent Society is not only a dedicated humanitarian and a volunteer, she also happens to be an outspoken champion of women’s rights and democracy. To mark International Women’s Day, 8 March, Fatima Gailani talks to the International Federation’s Ali Hakimi about her influential role and why she refuses to let ongoing violence in Afghanistan prevent the Red Crescent from doing its important work.  Read article

 

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22 November 2006, 10:26
Volunteerism amid turmoil 
Here in Afghanistan we are doing an event within the UN family. We have many security restrictions here, so our idea was to start promoting volunteerism within the UN family.  Read entry
From: IVD 2006 Blog
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