Training Refugees for Job Interviews
United Way the Netherlands (UW-NL) and Salesforce ran a professional training program for displaced persons for the last few months of 2021…
Providing Employment Training
“On the 6th of September 2021, United Way South Africa (UWSA) kicked off their entrepreneurial training program for unemployed and marginalized individuals…
Empowering Farming Communities in Ghana
In Ghana, the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is committed to empowering communities by providing them with various resources, opportunities, and skills…
Rural Electrification and Employment Opportunities
In 2018 Mercy Chelangat decided to become a full-time volunteer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society’s Kenya Chapter…
Entrepreneurial Solar Power
Flora upper secondary school in Norway and Nkhotakota youth organisation in Malawi have conducted an exchange with young entrepreneurs, resulting in the formation of a solar power company Kumudzi Kuwale…
Sustainable Energy
Since 2016, the City of Lille in France and the Municipality of Oujda in Morocco have jointly led the Decentralized Cooperation Project for Sustainable Energy…
Developing New Energy Sources in Comoros
In Comoros, a cooperative society named SHAWIRI-scoops, partially funded by the UNDP (United Nations Development Program), aims to educate and empower the local community in waste management and recycling…
Youth Provide Clean Water, Sanitation and More
Awareness 360 is a global, youth-led organization, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that empowers young people to do community service projects in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
Skills Based Support for Clean Water
In collaboration with government, partners and volunteers, Water For People helps provide communities, families, schools, and health clinics in Cuchumuela and San Pedro with access to reliable water service…
Tapping Rainwater
Uneven rainfall and run off have depleted the ground water in Bengaluru, India, contributing to a groundwater crisis in the region…
Improving Outcomes for Women
For Ekin Su Yilmaz from Turkey, joining UN Women as a UN Youth Volunteer was her life-long dream…
Educating Girls in Nepal
In Nepal VSO is working to promote access to the education for marginalised girls through the “Sisters for Sisters” programme, funded by DFID…
Empowering Women in Jordan
In Jordan, as women are facing all forms of violence, Girl Guides launched a project with the purpose of spreading awareness among the Girl Guides, school students, and local community of womens’ rights as stipulated by religion, constitution, and human rights, as well as empower women throughout society in all social, economic, and political fields…
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…
Do you know of other successes?
We’d like to hear how an organization you know is advancing progress toward UN SDG’s.