"I caught the UN virus!" a former UN Volunteer from Germany recounts
My name is Celine Rehring, from Germany. In July 2015, I started a UN Volunteer assignment in Africa that spanned over a year and a half. It's 2023 and I am still in the UN system, though in a different role. This is my story of how I started, and where I am today.
It was early 2015 when I heard about UNV at an international job fair in Berlin. I had graduated with a law degree and newly qualified as a magistrate, with professional experience at the European Commission in Brussels. I was looking for opportunities that would take me far, and not place me behind a desk handling legal cases. While at the job fair, I attended an information session on German lawyers at the UN. Coincidently, the person leading that session was a former UN Volunteer, and that's how my journey in the UN system began.