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Jordi Tablada along with colleague, Cindy Nawilis, filming a training of members of the Programme for Women Headed Households (PEKKA) in Indonesia. (Photo: Willow Paule)

UNV Live Facebook Chat On Thursday 17 May at 11 AM Bonn time (GMT + 2:00)

16 May 2012

As part of our online feature on World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is excited to announce that we will have a chance to chat with former UN Volunteer Ewa Wojkowska, Co-Founder and COO of Kopernik. Visit site

Governments must stop short-term outlook, warns UN Development head

Interview: Volunteerism is essential in sustainable development: UNV

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Volunteering and community engagement empower people to change the world from the grassroots up, especially when enabled by strong partnerships at every level.

During 2011, the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers, stakeholders joined to recognize the positive impacts of volunteering, facilitate people’s contributions to peace and the Millennium Development Goals through volunteering, build and reinforce volunteering networks, and promote the values of volunteering.

LEARN MORE AT THE IYV+10 WEBSITE: www.iyvplus10.org

UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)