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Upcoming Openings: UNV is anticipating several openings in Caraga, Mindanao. If you have extensive experience in the following fields, you're encouraged to register your profile with National UNV Specialist Online Application:
- Gender mainstreaming
- Community development
- Indigenous peoples/communities
NUNV posts are open to Filipino nationals only. Foreign nationals having permanent immigrant status are not eligible to apply.
To become an NUNV Specialist, you must meet the minimum criteria.
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VOLUNTEERISM IS MY LIFE!
We are UNV Volunteers in the Philippines!
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Tell us your thoughts about our website! |
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For the past year, UNV Country Office Team added various key features, renewed the design, and migrated to the current domain, with the help of dedicated Online Volunteers around the globe.
We would like to ask your help to improve our website by taking a 5-minute online survey. Your input will be shared among the UNV Country Office Team who will plan the second phase of web development..
UNV Website Survey |
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After 40 years, global volunteer group exits RP |
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AFTER four straight decades of volunteerism in the Philippines’ rural communities, UK-based Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is ending its engagement here this month.
Malou Juanito, VSO Bahaginan executive director, said the program office of the international development organization VSO has completed its mission in the Philippines, culminating a legacy of global volunteerism to help alleviate poverty and aid the disadvantaged in the country.
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Volunteers rally for Haiti recovery
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Pretoria, South Africa and Georgetown, Guyana : It's been demonstrated time and time again how important voluntary action is in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters. Jonas Scherrens was volunteering with human rights organizations in Haiti when the country was devastated by an earthquake on 12 January this year.
"The ground started shaking, and it felt like it would tear apart," recalls Mr. Scherrens, who is now just starting a new assignment as a UNV volunteer Intern. "In 30 seconds everything changes. The feeling of fear and uncertainty about what will happen at that very moment. That's what I remember most."
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Korea's Overseas Volunteer Corps 3rd Largest in World
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Korea's corps of overseas volunteers is the third largest in the world, statistics revealed on Sunday. According to the statistics by the state-run Korea International Cooperation Agency, Korea sends 1,000 new volunteers to 43 countries every year, third only to the Peace Corps of the U.S. (3,801 volunteers to 72 countries) and the Japan's Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (2,000 volunteers).
Even when considering the total number of volunteers at work, as volunteers usually have a two-year contract with the KOICA, Korea still ranks third with 1,538 volunteers in 43 countries. The U.S. has 8,079 volunteers in 74 countries, and Japan has 3,147 in 77 countries. Germany is in fourth place with 970 volunteers in 42 countries.
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Online volunteering opens the door to world citizenship |
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“I’m a little embarrassed to admit,” Tiffany Shaw-Diaz says, “that I couldn’t find Ghana on a map.”
Few Americans probably could, but Shaw-Diaz did something about it. She not only learned where the small African nation is located (Atlantic coast, right next to Togo, if that helps), but she found an inspired, and inspiring, way to learn more about the place and its people, and then help them live better lives.
And she didn’t stop there.
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See also Dayton Daily News |
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Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency (PNVSCA)
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