Volunteer reflection - United Nations Volunteers

38 . UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTEERS: VOLUNTEER REFLECTION■ How does the project impact women, orhow are women involved?■ How do you:■ improve access to opportunities andservices?■ improve the delivery of services?■ increase inclusion and participation indevelopment?■ mobilize citizens?■ Finally, is there anything else you’d liketo add that you think is important orgives a particularly good example of thethings discussed above?An example of a story is given below:www.unv.org/en/perspectives/doc/addressing-biodiversity-through-technology.htmlADDRESSING BIODIVERSITY THROUGH TECHNOLOGYby Naji Sakhita, 22 May 2008Damascus, Syria: The climate is in constant change andwhoever watched the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' by AlGore knows what we are going through and what the worldis facing in the next few years. This was the main reasonbehind my application to become a UNV volunteer.My specialization may seem to be more theoretical and myduties might be far away from the typical image ofvolunteering – but I am still a volunteer. I am an Information Technology Volunteer,and I work to engage people in environmental issues through the means of thesetechnologies.Technology is often seen as a main factor in environmental degradation, butthrough our project we try to publicize environmental challenges and raiseawareness among youth and the public about climate change through our nationalclimate change website: www.inc-sy.org.