Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: There are positive signs that we are entering a new age of volunteerism. National service has been an important means of nation-building in many countries, and there are now unprecedented opportunities for committed and talented individuals to channel their passions and energies toward building a better tomorrow through organisations such as the United Nations Volunteers (UNV).  Read article

Bukavu, DR Congo: The International Volunteers Day (IVD) celebration activities in Bukavu, were concentrated on attempting to tackle major development needs of some of the global issues on Sanitation, sports, plight of the Orphaned and Abandoned Children, and the symbolic remembrance of our recently fallen/dead colleagues, especially in 2007.  Read article

Kinshasa, DR Congo: Kinshasa-based UNV volunteers working for MONUC marked IVD by having a ceremony for four UNV volunteer that died in 2007.  Read article

Lubumbashi, DR Congo : Elections stole the headlines in 2006, but volunteers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are quietly giving back to nature what it had been stripped of in the years before.  Read article

Kinshasa, DR Congo: Le 5 décembre 2006, le monde entier a célébré la Journée internationale des volontaires qui marque le cinquième anniversaire de l’Année internationale des volontaires. Cette journée, comme l’a dit Kemal Dervis, Administrateur du Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD), devait permettre de « mettre à l’honneur l’esprit du volontariat et l’engagement des personnes qui donnent de l’expertise  pour améliorer la vie des autres ».  Read article