13 February 2009
Supporting orphans in Blue Nile State
Damazine, Sudan: UNV volunteers in Damazine – Blue Nile State – Sudan, joined other colleagues worldwide to observe International Volunteer Day. A group of UNV volunteers organized a visit to an orphanage for children.
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13 February 2009
Cleaning up in Kapoeta
Kapoeta, Sudan: This was the day when International Volunteer Day was celebrated in Kapoeta town, Kapoeta South County of Eastern Equatoria State (EES). It was also the first time the Day had been celebrated in the history of Kapoeta.
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13 February 2009
Sudan volunteers aid in school reconstruction
Pageri, Sudan: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in Sudan, in cooperation with the private sector and the Ministry of Education, teamed up to rebuild a primary school.
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04 December 2008
Sudan - Cleaning up Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan: International Volunteer Day was celebrated early on 4 December in Khartoum with a variety of activities under the theme 'partnership for achieving the Millennium Development Goals through volunteerism'.
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06 October 2008
Volunteerism and FGM in Sudan by Dr. Nafisa Mohamed A. Bedri
Alexandria, Egypt: In 2006, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, along with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Ahfad University for Women in Sudan implemented an innovative program to encourage volunteerism and to mobilize local communities to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) in Sudan. The project aimed to combat FGM by drawing on volunteerism and local community action. It has attempted to utilize a combination of new and existing approaches to bring about change in its target area, Abu Saeed in Omdurman, Sudan.
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