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'What are you doing for others'

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If You Like To Do Something For Others ! Than  Come Join HEEALS Volunteer Engagement Program !  Contact at : communications@heeals.org Website : http://heeals.org/   F acebook : https://www.facebook.com/Heeals?ref=bookmarks Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/heeals

Achieving the global goals: why volunteers are important

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In the last 15 years, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have framed global development efforts. Volunteer action for development has contributed to the MDGs in a wide variety of ways  The new agenda for sustainable development will frame global peace and development efforts in 2016-2030 in all countries, regardless of their development level. It has a wider scope and aims at tackling both vertical and cross-cutting issues. It also explicitly recognizes volunteer groups as stakeholders to achieve the new set of 17   Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , also known as global goals. Lessons learnt from the MDGs MDGs implementation showed that sustainable development requires approaches that complement technical, financial and institutional measures. To achieve the SDGs, people’s engagement in planning, implementation and monitoring needs to be facilitated and new partnerships forged. Volunteers will be instrumental in this process. This has strongly emerged from an e

Integrating volunteering in the next decade

At the upcoming seventieth session of the UN General Assembly, the Secretary-General will report to Member States on progress on volunteerism since 2012 and present a proposed  Plan of Action for the next decade and beyond  (2016-2030). The Plan of Action aims at integrating volunteering in peace and development policies and programmes through a strategic and collective long-term approach that matches the period of sustainable development goals (SDGs) implementation. It provides a frame through which civil society, the UN and other stakeholders can support and leverage the potential of volunteerism worldwide. In fact, evidence exists that when volunteerism is integrated into national development strategies and United Nations plans, people are increasingly able to contribute to achievements in education, health, governance, sustainable livelihoods, security and peace, environment, gender and social inclusion.  Based on the improved recognition of volunteerism and on the continuin

"Roshni - An End Of The Darkness" - Teaser

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We release the teaser of "ROSHNI -An End Of The Darkness " Join Us at : communications@heeals.org Web :www.heeals.org Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/Heeals Twitter : https://twitter.com/heeals