Here is a selection of encouraging examples from around the world that will give you some ideas of how you can use IVD to promote the Millennium Development Goals.

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Volunteering for the promotion of the MDGs

Albania
Conducted a travelling MDG exhibit in the capital Tirana

Azerbaijan
Encouraging people to volunteer, specifically to achieve the MDGs through marches in the capital and distribution of materials

Bangladesh
Held a countrywide awareness campaign on MDGs and volunteerism

Senegal
Live radio discussion on how volunteerism can help/is helping to achieve the MDGs

Viet Nam
A young volunteer biked around the country to promote MDGs

Volunteering for child welfare

Angola
Held a Christmas party for street children take them off the streets even for a few hours; created awareness on the plight of street children and paved way for UNV to plan more strategic programmes for them

Palestine
Art & theater workshops for children in refugee camps

Russia
Awareness campaign focusing on the plight of orphans and neglected children (e.g., street children) and poor conditions of orphanages

Slovenia
Recognizing voluntary work done by children

Volunteering for health

Bangladesh
Free eye clinic in remote areas and hygiene; sanitation awareness

Brazil
Blood donation

Lebanon
First aid training

Fiji
Free medical consultations

MDG 1 -- Volunteering to help eradicate poverty

DR Congo, Madagascar, Nepal
Distribution of clothes, medicine and food

Kazakhstan
Placing volunteer contribution in the government agenda and encouraging government to use volunteers to achieve sustainable development

Tanzania
Training groups of people basic business skills to improve their livelihood

MDG 4 -- Volunteering to reduce child mortality

DR Congo
Free psychological counseling session with HIV-infected women; distributing condoms; awareness raising workshop on HIV/AIDS

Namibia
Held fair on how volunteerism combats HIV/AIDS and encouraging Namibians to volunteer to look after children orphaned by HIV/AIDS

Togo
Distribution of mosquito nets in pediatric clinics to prevent the spread of malaria

Uganda
Visiting volunteer-run orphanage and distributed food, clothes, toys to HIV-orphaned or infected children (claimed to be the most neglected issue in the country)

MDG 6 -- Volunteering to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria

Cambodia
Held an AIDS walk in the capital Phnom Penh, with HIV-infected people, their families and civil society groups

DR Congo
Conducted a stage play to raise AIDS awareness amongst police, soldiers and young people.

Namibia
Distribution of mosquito nets in pediatric clinics to prevent the spread of malaria

Uganda
Cleaned the city and eliminated mosquito breeding grounds

MDG 7 – Volunteering for the environment – ensure environmental sustainability

India
Volunteers cleaning up biggest river in New Delhi; with street plays to generate public awareness on the river’s pollution level

Jamaica
Teaching elementary school students how to recycle waste and decrease water consumption

Maldives
Distributing cloth shopping bag and setting-up info stands on supermarkets to reduce usage of plastic and distribute info on environment.