International Volunteer Day 2019 will be celebrated with a series of series of events, our main event will be on sunday 8th december where we will jointly with red cross Society, support the local football school, and organise additional workshops during their training. The school gathers children of different background (disabled children and children from different social status), who are trained by volunteers..

Come join us as we celebrate IVD 2019. The International Volunteer Forum is the largest volunteer event to take place in Russia. The forum focuses on partnership for common goals: building relationships between volunteers, NGOs, businesses, government and media. The forum includes vaious discussions and workshops with leading experts in volunteering and social programmes from all over the world, as well as networking and international cooperation sessions and an exhibition of public associations and social intiatives.

The event will take stock of progress and ways to strengthen volunteering in the development context. Participants will explore the new factors, best practices, lessons learnt that are important to reimaging volunteering for the 2030 Agenda.

According to recent estimates in the State of the World’s Volunteerism Report 2018, there were over 8.9 million full time equivalent volunteers in the Arab States region (18 countries reporting) in 2018. 17.1% are formal volunteers, within organized volunteer structures, while the vast majority (82.9%) are volunteering informally.

Multilingualism allows communication between the different Member States of the United Nations (UN) with different languages and cultures. In promoting tolerance, multilingualism ensures greater participation of all Member States in the work they perform within the Organization, as well as greater effectiveness, better results and greater participation.

To promote the use of the six official languages and to guarantee the full and equitable treatment of all official languages, there are minimum standards for multilingualism of UN websites.

At the United Nations stand at the summit, UNV organised an activity related to the “Youth for the SDGs” project, during which young leaders attending the summit were invited to ‘adopt’ one of the Sustainable Development Goals and to indicate a specific course of action which would contribute to its achievement.

The International Volunteer Day was celebrated in Mali and chaired by Prime Minister Mobido Keita who reiterated, in the presence of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme Deputy Executive Coordinator, Nicola Harrington, that the national authorities are committed to promote volunteerism.