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UN Volunteers in BeijingAt China’s International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE), Jialin is a young Chinese UN Volunteer Project Analyst with UNOSSC. She organizes trainings, reviews grant proposals, and drafts policy briefs that drive sustainable development in agriculture, clean energy, and poverty reduction. The United Nations Volunteers programme is a United Nations organization that open volunteer opportunities and mobilize volunteers in 150 countries UNV advocates volunteerism for sustainable development, integrates volunteering into development planning and mobilizes volunteers with the United Nations.

Humanitarian Volunteers at the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Approximately one million local volunteers affiliated with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement work in contexts where there is armed conflict and violence worldwide. Local voluntary action and leadership efforts are often explained by a sense of shared responsibilities amongst affected populations: “We feel responsible ... Volunteers are motivated by values like those of justice, equality and freedom as expressed in the United Nations Charter. A society which supports and encourages different forms of volunteering is likely to be a society which also promotes the well-being of its citizens.