UN Volunteer Denis Yameogo supports UNICEF’s child protection work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by giving communities the capacity to address child protection issues. This requires working directly with communities and mobilizing volunteers to promote protection and well-being for children. Under the responsibility of UNICEF provincial office, community volunteers help build the so called protected communities that promote child protection at the local level and protect children from violence, abuse and disease.

It was a somber day in Kinshasa last Sunday as UNV Executive Coordinator Flavia Pansieri joined the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme and Senior Management for the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) in a special tribute to the three UN Volunteers who lost their lives in the crash of UN Flight 834 last Monday 4 April.