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National UNV Specialist Recruitment
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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VSO Bahaginan and AKAP Pinoy empower the disabled for May 2010

MANILA, Philippines - The United Nations World Health Organization estimates that one in every 10 Filipinos is living with physical disability. With the upcoming elections, VSO Bahaginan, a development organization that engages volunteers and institutional partners into a wide range of volunteer programs, and AKAP Pinoy, a network of more than 446 disabled people's organizations (DPOs) working to uplift the quality of life of PWDs, have joined forces with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to empower PWD to exercise their right to vote in the May elections through a series of initiatives.

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Volunteers rally for Haiti recovery

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."

Online volunteering opens the door to world citizenship

“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.