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UNV Chief of Africa Section visits Kenya |
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Nairobi, 22 March 2009 Neighbourhood Volunteers have been urged to continue facilitating dialogue in the neighbourhoods in order to foster consensus building and enable community healing, reconciliation and peaceful co-existence within the community. UNV Chief of Africa Section, Mr. Michele Falavigna, said the role played by Neighbourhood Volunteers in promoting peace and reconciliation in Kenya is important because the neighbourhood volunteers are a representative of the community and are therefore well placed to come up with solutions to problems faced in the neighbourhoods
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Kenya marks International Volunteers Day |
5th December, 2008
 | UN Volunteer Ms lucy Sewe attends to the public at the UNV stand
during the International Volunteers Day at KICC
| United Nations Volunteers in Kenya joined other Volunteer Involving Organizations (VIOs) on 5th December, 2008 to commemorate the international Volunteer Day (IVD). The Activities to mark the day were held at the Kenyatta International Conference centre (KICC). The activities were organized by the Volunteer Involving Organizations Network (VIO Network) which is a group of organizations in civil society who promote volunteerism in Kenya and who recruit and deploy volunteers to achieve their development objectives. The theme of this year was diversity in volunteerism. Photo Gallery |
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UN Volunteers in Kenya hold annual retreat |
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8th December 2008  | UNVs at the UNV Kenya 2008 Retreat in Naivasha, Kenya
| UN Volunteers in Kenya attended a retreat from 2nd to 4th, December 2008, at the Mara SOPA Lodge in Naivasha. The purpose of the retreat was to review progress on the outcomes of the UN Volunteers annual retreat held last year, update UNVs on the progress of UN programming e.g. UNDAF and CPAPs, share experiences about volunteering and promote a better understanding of the volunteer initiatives.
The retreat was also aimed at building capacity of UN Volunteers through facilitating selected learning topics, providing UN Volunteers with updated information about UNV administrative matters and to enhance volunteerism spirit among UNVs.
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