Adele Libam : “We don’t become volunteers. We are born volunteers. Everything is in the mind!”
Adele Libam is a Cameroonian Volunteer who arrived in Bukavu a year ago, on October 2011, to coordinate the provincial component of the UNDP Poverty Programme. Guided by the values of volunteering, she is committed to the…
Luca Guanziroli: Reflections on an effective strategy to fight against child labor in mines and qua
Luca Guanziroli, UNV Child Protection Officer at UNICEF, is in charge of the programs that fight against child labor in artisanal mines and quarries in Katanga and Kasai as well as of the related development of corporate…
Goma under alert
Mid-November, the UN-staff based in Goma spent a long, anxious and frustrating weekend at the MONUSCO compound. Anxiety, an understandable feeling when you hear the shots not far from the city. But, above all, frustration…
‘‘’When you start working for the UN, it becomes very difficult to come back to a quiet life''
For most of us, being a UN Volunteer provides a first experience within the United Nations system and a unique opportunity to understand what means "working in the field". This is not the case for Philip Harris! When Philip…
The United Nations Volunteers organize a Tshukudu race in Goma (DRC) to celebrate solidarity
A Tshukudu race for peace in North Kivu – Unique in the world, Tshukudu is a wooden-made bicycle traditionally used for the transportation of heavy goods in the region. Saturday, March 16, 2013, no less than one hundred and…
The UN SG, Ban Ki-moon, travels to the Great Lakes Region with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
After concluding his visit to Mozambique on 22 May, the Secretary-General will travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which will be the first leg of a three day joint visit with World Bank Group President Jim Yong…
In Africa’s Great Lakes region, peace dividend must follow peace deal
By Ban Ki-moon and Jim Yong Kim Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbours…
UN Special Envoy voices concern over renewed fighting in the eastern DRC
Kinshasa, 21 May 2013 - Mary Robinson, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, has expressed her concern about the recent outbreak of fighting in locations near Goma, in the eastern…
The youths of Kananga, Western Kasaï, strive to develop civic responsibility in their province
Kananga, 17 May 2013 – In Kananga, Western Kasai province, the Electoral, Public Information and Civil Affairs sections of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)…
UN Special Envoy to Great Lakes Region meets Congolese Civil Society
Kinshasa, 22 may 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mary Robinson, met with Congolese civil society representatives in Kinshasa on Tuesday for an exchange of views…