UN Volunteers create safe urban spaces for youth to discuss their challenges
UN Volunteers take action to create safe urban space for youth, address gender-based violence and respond to COVID-19 related challenges. Meet Olga Tsaplina, International UN Youth Volunteer with UN-Habitat in Kenya. Her assignment is fully funded by Russian Federation.
Olga Tsaplina has joined UN-Habitat in Kenya as a Junior Officer for sustainable urbanization in August 2020. She has a background in political science and international relations and studied in Russia and Germany.
UN-Habitat Human Rights and Social Inclusion Unit is responsible for the inclusion of the vulnerable urban population groups into programming and various other activities of the agency. Olga has been supporting the unit on several workstreams like developing the project documents, concept notes, reports and sometimes weekly event publications.