Becoming Kinder and More Compassionate
As a volunteer with Piece of My Heart Foundation (POMHF), Oluwatoyin Olayemi helps teenagers understand the concept of sex education and how to live a healthy, and purposeful life…
Increasing Women Participation
In Burkina Faso, volunteers from the Programme National de Volontariat du Burkina Faso strengthened the participation of women in the 2020 electoral process…
Enabling Women in Elections
The United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic worked with community volunteers in that country to enable 3,185 women to register as first-time voters, while 390 women candidates standing in the elections were provided with capacity development opportunities…
Supporting Women’s Finances
In Solomon Islands, the volunteer-run savings club “The West ‘Are’ Are Rokotanikeni Association” supported women, including in remote areas, in managing their fnances and savings…
Gender Sensitivity
In Bolivia,the Country Program Office (CPO) of Cuso International started working on masculinities with the objective to sensitize and include the masculine side to the gender discussion…
Ending Loneliness and Inspiring Imagination
Sometimes a single program can produce multiple positive impacts…
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Diana, a high school senior in Massachusetts volunteers to help high-school students learn how to become involved in STEM volunteering…
Bridging the Digital Divide
United Way L’Alliance coordinated corporate volunteers to help ensure remote access to education for high school students in in Puteaux…
Creating a New Library
When students from the secondary school in Timișoara, Romania, come back from summer vacation, they will find a beautiful new reading corner awaiting them…
Helping Students Make Music
United Way Spain is inspiring young people through an innovative musical creation and production program…
Teaching Blind Students in Senegal
In Senegal, Sightsaver fights to campaign for the rights of people with disabilities to participate equally in society, leaving no one behind…
Preserving Jamaican Language and Culture
In Jamaica, Amashika Associates has released a book called Chat Tu Mi (Chat to me) & Color…
Volunteer Education Specialists
In collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Myanmar, national and international volunteers, and the British Council on the ‘Towards Results in Education and English’ (TREE) programme, VSO harnesses a volunteer-led effort to improve Myanmar’s health and education systems…
Working Toward Resilience in West Africa
AVENIR, a two-year project funded by the European Commission through its EU Aid Volunteers facility, has allowed France Volontaires and partners in Togo, Guinea and Senegal to deploy about 30 couples of volunteers (each made of 1 international and 1 national volunteer)…
Delivering Good Health and Well Being
The past year has brought unprecedented pressure on global efforts to not only prevent the spread of disease but also to provide adequate sanitation for people’s health, privacy, and safety…
Building the Skills of Doctors
Despite the challenges facing health care workers around the world in 2020, the Solomon Islands’ National Referral Hospital (NRH) celebrated the graduation of eleven doctors from its volunteer supported Bridging Internship Program…
An African Woman Health Champion
Violet Mathenge is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, with more than seven years of experience in the clinical field, as well as in disease surveillance…
Covid-19 Messaging
In Kenya, networks of youth volunteers are mobilising their peers on safe public health messages, using radio, peer networks, and social media to create awareness about the Covid-19 pandemic…
Do you know of other successes?
We’d like to hear how an organization you know is advancing progress toward UN SDG’s.