Are you interested in becoming a UNV volunteer, but still have some questions and doubts? Then we gladly invite you to a presentation of UNV programme that will take place at UN House, in Kiev, at 19.00 on February, 27th. Read

On this festive occasion UNV Ukraine team would like to say Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to you, your families and closest friends!

We wish you all the routine but so necessary things, as health and luck. Let your homes remain warm and your businesses prosper. Let the beloved ones love you, and the dearest one dear you.

We wish you wisdom to choose priorities for those things that really matter in life and hope that next year will bring us even more opportunities for fruitful cooperation and personal contacts. We greatly appreciate your involvement and participation and thank you for everything you helped us to achieve in 2007.

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Kyiv, Ukraine: Igor Petrovsky, a doctor from Vinnytsa, travelled to South Africa to work for a year as a United Nations Volunteer. Now awaiting his next UN assignment, he sat down to talk with What’s On about his African adventures. Read

Kyiv: The International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (IVD) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution A/RES/40/212 on 17 December 1985. Since then, governments, the UN system and civil society organizations have successfully joined volunteers around the world to celebrate the Day on 5 December. Read

Read the message from UN Secretary General on International Volunteer Day, December 5th Read

Bonn, Germany: Read the Statement Read

Kyiv, Ukraine: Over 38.7 million people, in 110 countries have broken the Guinness World Record - set last year at 23.5 million - for the largest number of people to "STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY" in 24 hours. Ukraine for the first time joined "STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY". Read

Kyiv: The first International Volunteer Promotion Campaign was held from August 27 to September 10, 2007, in Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv oblasts. During the two week campaign, volunteers from Poland, Serbia, France, Germany, Denmark, Turkey and Japan joined Ukrainian peers to work on solving actual problems of Ukrainian rural communities. The initiative was sponsored by the UN Volunteers Programme and the Ukrainian Association for Youth Cooperation Alternative-V, with additional support from United Nations Development Programme projects “Human Security for Ukrainian Youth” and Chornobyl Recovery and Development Programme (CRDP). Read

Kyiv, Ukraine: On 17 July, the 2007 All-Ukraine "Volunteer of the Year" Contest was launched. The initiative is organised by the Volunteer Centre "Dobra Volia" with support from GURT Resource Centre.

The contest is aimed at public acknowledgment of volunteers' deeds and appreciation of their contribution to community development in Ukraine.

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Mohyliv-Podilsky: On 15-16 May over 50 local volunteers were trained by UNDP/MGSDP to further build their capacity on HIV/AIDS issues and prepare them for disseminating this knowledge among the local youth by peer-to-peer approach. Read