In the United Kingdom, over 750,000 people signed up to support the National Government’s Volunteer responders programme to support vulnerable people who are self-isolating…

Over the last 15 years through its Grow in Family program, United Way Chile has mobilized more than 11,000 volunteers from corporations committed to improving early education…

In Senegal, volunteers through a local partner of France Volontaires, le GREF supported the development of a training plan on early childhood learning which has been subsequently developed into a national plan and adopted across the country following a partnership with the national government...

The Youth Empowerment Transformation Trust in Zimbabwe and the Students and Academics International Assistance Fund in Norway ran an exchange for young people to strengthen academic freedom…

In Zimbabwe, Chikurubi Maximum Security prison is the largest prison averaging 2,600 inmates, many classified as high risk with long sentences, and 17% of the prison population is HIV positive and in need of HIV health services and peer support…

United Way believes everyone has the right to age in good health with dignity in their home and community…

Fifty UN Volunteer health experts were deployed in response to the coronavirus pandemic through a UN joint programme, implemented by UNDP, UN Women and UNICEF to support county healthcare systems and guarantee business continuity and services for poor and marginalized communities in Kenya…

In Belize, volunteers provided vital support to the operation of COVID-19 quarantine centres…

In Fiji, volunteers disseminated health information on COVID-19 to communities as part of the national disaster management system…

In Thailand, more than a million Village Health Volunteers collected daily health information on COVID-19 in rural communities…

In Lao People’s Democratic Republic, community radio volunteers reached people in rural and remote areas with COVID-19 prevention messages in their own languages…

n Jamaica, volunteers under the Ministry of Health and Wellness received training to address mental health needs in communities, playing a vital role in the COVID-19 pandemic response…

Pakistan established the Corona Relief Tiger Force national youth scheme to provide essential supplies to vulnerable groups to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts…

Panama empowered volunteers from the Ministry of Social Development’s Voluntario Solidario programme to distribute millions of emergency “solidarity” packages to vulnerable families to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts.

Peru engaged volunteers from the bicentennial national volunteer programme to support the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion in monitoring the physical and mental health of more than 100,000 elderly persons and persons with disabilities to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts…

In South Sudan, the Anataban collective used arts-based strategies to provide information on COVID-19 to communities to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Solidarite feminine pour la paix et le developpement integral launched a campaign against domestic violence, following their experiences from previous Ebola virus disease epidemics to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts…

In Yemen, the Yemeni Women’s Union recorded cases of domestic violence during the pandemic and provided legal support to women and girls force to marry to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigating its socioeconomic impacts…

Starting in July 2021, severe rainfall created a dangerous situation in Henan, China…

In South Africa during the COVID-19 crisis, communities struggled to increase vaccination rates, and the economy continued to reel from the financial effects of the pandemic…