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

Kiev, Ukraine: Nearly one thousand schoolchildren, youngsters and their parents came to the “Kyevepoplaza” exhibition centre in Kyiv, Ukraine for the International “Country of Childhood” exhibition. The Ukrainian Red Cross also launched a new HIV/AIDS awareness and anti-stigma campaign during the exhibition. Read

An afternoon was held with refugee children in Kyiv on the occasion of International Volunteer Day, 2005. Read

A workshop was held on 19 November, 2005 with youth organizations in Kiev. Topics discussed included the concept of volunteerism and the challenges of establishing a better volunteer network in Ukraine. Read