Events

  • Volunteering to Make Orissa Green

    The 'Green Orissa' campaign was launched in Orissa in July amidst boundless enthusiasm, hope and promise to make the state green through volunteering efforts. The campaign launched in a Bhubaneshwar-based Government Girl's High School, promotes tree plantation as a first step to meeting the challenges posed by climate change.

  • IVD by Arcelor Mittal India

    Strategic Objective: “Promote and support activities that will help/facilitate an individual (employee) in becoming more self conscious and sensitive towards society and environment; thereby making a lifelong commitment to voluntarily contribute to one or more social and/or environmental cause.”

  • UNV Annual Report 2008

    Peace is more than just the absence of discord or violent conflict. It encompasses all aspects of social cohesion – including equality, freedom and the rule of law. Peace is the necessary prerequisite for sustainable human development, for equitable access to resources and services, and for the full realization of human opportunities and potential.

  • UNV Newsletter October 2009

    People around the world are volunteering hundreds of thousands of hours to tackle climate change and send a message to world leaders that everyone is part of the solution.

  • UNV Factsheet 2009

    The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide.

  • IVD Celebration in Orissa

    United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with local partners - Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) and Bakul Foundation - jointly commemorated the International Volunteer Day (IVD) on 5th December 2009 at Bhubaneswar, Orissa. The theme for this year’s IVD celebration in Orissa was “Volunteering for our Planet”.

  • International Volunteers Day 2009 Report

    UNV India played a role of leadership for IVD 2009 involving Swechha, UNDP India, VSO, American Center, Times Foundation, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Department of Environment Govt. of Delhi, NFI, Tehelka, NDTV, Radio MEOW, The YP Foundation and Jamghat joined hands to celebrate and commemorate International Volunteer Day on the 5th of December 2009.

  • Voluntary Ideas Turning Green India by UNV Programme Officer, Mr. Anoj Chhetri

    India is a rapidly developing country where a billion plus people live, but paradoxically many of them with a huge gap in living standards. Environment is a major concern for the Government, UN and other many development organizations.

  • IVD India Reports on UNV Website

    If we are to meet the challenges of climate change, citizens of developing countries must be equally involved. In India, a nation of more than a billion people, 'Volunteering for our Planet' extended across every area of society - from schools and universities to the private sector. Read about the multitude of activities in the country that contributed the largest number of hours towards the 'Volunteering for our Planet' campaign.

  • International Year of Volunteers: 10th Anniversary 2011

Publications
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Volunteering in India: Contexts, Perspectives and Discourses

The publication presents the viewpoints and experiences of eminent people and volunteers from different disciplines on the ethos, tradition and diversity of volunteering in the Indian context. It reflects on the challenges and opportunities to volunteering such as changing social structures and new complexities in the social structure; increasing individualization; increasing episodic volunteering; motivations to volunteering, especially amongst youth; and opportunities to volunteering due to conflicts in different parts of the society and growing inequalities.

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