"The only way to achieve the SDGs is village by village, volunteer by volunteer"
Michael Emery served as a UN Volunteer in Liberia and Guinea from 1990 to 1991. Since then, he has made a career in the United Nations, and crossed paths with UNV and UN Volunteers repeatedly. A UN Volunteer by passion and teacher by profession, Michael, now Director of Human Resources at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), reflects on his journey.
At 25 years of age, I was a teacher in Australia, yearning to experience something new. Out of the blue, I was offered an opportunity to teach at a missionary school in central Liberia. I remember going to a nearby library to check where Liberia was in the atlas!