Volunteer reflection - United Nations Volunteers

40 . UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTEERS: VOLUNTEER REFLECTIONPoemPROUD TO BE A VOLUNTEERA Poem by Cristian Mazzei, UNV Civil Affairs Officer in Fort Liberté, Haiti9 December 2006: English Translation, fromwww.unv.org/en/perspectives/doc/proud-to-be-a.htmlIn my mind the face of a childits eyes lost to the horizona life without future.A woman with no way of feedingher child that she holds close to herbut without hope.The hands of a man asking for breadand the pain of a hunger that gives no rest.I feel the misery, the sufferingand the cry for helpwhich perturbs my nights and gives me no peacePeace, the world still needs Peace.I feel the indifference of people,who have abandoned these people.The desolation of this land that my steps now walk on.How can one still remain passive before this outcry?How can one close his eyes before so much pain?