Mariko is from Japan🇯🇵. Solomon is from Nigeria🇳🇬. What do they have in common? A passion to stand #WithRefugees. Mariko is a UN Volunteer with @UNHCRUganda🇺🇬. Solomon is with UNHCR Tanzania🇹🇿. We hope their story inspires you👉🔗t.ly/DaZ46 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

The Fibonacci circle as it looks today

A multilateralist chasing an elusive global consensus If you saw my pinned post ⬆️ you’ll agree

1️⃣ is the most inportant. 2️⃣ & 3️⃣ follow from and build on that. 4️⃣ is the volunteers know-how for 1️⃣

Today’s memo

Why do I think this map was created by a New Yorker? professpost.com/the-u-s-cities…

We bring modern forms of volunteering to scale: with thanks to UN Office for Partnerships 🇺🇳 who engaged 1,000 Online Volunteers of 100 nationalities to help with the #WeTheWomen Global Survey

Trylingual. That’s so me

In 2021 Royal Canadian Mint issued 10c coin to commemorate "the inestimable contribution of Canadian volunteers". The design of the coin was unveiled by then HRH Prince of Wales. We discussed with UN ECOSOC President Canada Mission UN how 🇺🇳🇨🇦 can join hands in 2026 as the International Volunteer Year

L: The Ptolemy's world map, 2nd century BC R: The Brandt line, 20th century AD Both were extremely valuable at the time. As I argued recently, let's not get stuck in old maps and appreciate the world's new complexity unv.org/Success-storie…

So true

UN Volunteers are everywhere across the vast blue Pacific Ocean. In almost every small island country, they work on climate change, gender and youth programs. Not easy for them to share volunteer experiences with each other, but this is what UNV Pacific tries once a month

Shoutout to UNFPA country teams around the world who not only provide duty of care to UN Volunteers, but also value and empower them

This video will take you down the memory lane: how it was during covid and how we, as humanity, felt the need to stick together. Thank you barbara laurenceau for nurturing "young champions" during the most critical time

Following UNICEF Board discussions, and seeing children speaking up on global issues, can't help but think: this is how any summit of the Future should look

The youngest UN Volunteer this year is 18. She is Ecuadorian. The oldest is 79. He is Sri Lankan. This is how AI says it will look when they meet each other. UNV will continue to promote volunteering as a lifecycle activity and for intergenerational dialogue