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2. United Nations Volunteers - Wikipedia

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   The United Nations Volunteers ( UNV) programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and it can transform the pace and nature of development. Volunteerism benefits both society at large and ...

3. Voluntary Service Overseas - Wikipedia

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   Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Voluntary Service Overseas ( VSO) is a not-for-profit international development organization charity with a vision for "a fair world for everyone" and a mission to "create lasting change through volunteering". [1] VSO delivers development impact [clarification needed] through a blended volunteer model consisting ...

4. Peace Corps - Wikipedia

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   Website. peacecorps .gov. The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order (10924) of President John F. Kennedy and authorized by Congress the following September by the ...

5. United Kingdom International Search and Rescue Team

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   United Kingdom International Search and Rescue Team ( UK-ISAR) is a search and rescue team from the United Kingdom that responds to humanitarian accidents or disasters on behalf of the UK Government. [1] The current team structure is classified by the United Nations as a ‘Heavy USAR Team’ (urban Search and Rescue) under the International ...

6. International volunteering - Wikipedia

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   International volunteering is when volunteers contribute their time to work for organisations or causes outside their home countries. International volunteering has a long association with international development or environment, with the aim of bringing benefits to host communities. [1] It can include a range of services, from healthcare ...

7. United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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   United Nations Trusteeship Council. Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role of the UN's Department of Peace Operations as an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace". [2] It is distinguished from peacebuilding, peacemaking, and peace enforcement ...