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United Nations organisation (UNO) deserves our accolade for being a platform for nations to discuss and find solutions to the world’s diverse problems. We reasoned that had it mean that such a platform does not exist the world would have been in utter disarray.

Unfortunately, there are countless people and communities in the world that know next to nothing about the importance of UNO. Unodays project is just out to raise awareness on the roles of UN among people and local communities around the world that know little or nothing about UNO. We hope to achieve this through our volunteers’ press cuttings, clips of video and audio news etc. obtained from various local communities’ media germane to the various objectives of UN days which would be posted here and during any of the days UNO commemorates we shall present a summary of news reports that volunteers have posted in our blog (later website) thereby raising awareness about what UNO has done and been doing.

We hope to achieve this by organising seminars, workshop, and conferences whichever we found appropriate through face to face or online meetings. Our target audiences are local community people, pupils and students of schools and Universities. During this time we hope to give support (e.g. scholarships) to University students, pupils of schools and victim of e.g. domestic violence in a locality on the day we are joining UNO to commemorate.

A number of opportunities are available for those who want to work with us. See below some of them and you could write through the address below for additional roles.

Volunteer reporter- This category of volunteer which could be anyone and do not need to forward a formal application for consideration but will search news items from their country of residence as published in newspapers or website of newspapers or/and newsmagazines and will either post scanned copies of press cuttings (which do not have to be a full story) or/and post a summary of the news reported with a web link to where the news was published here

Volunteer Advisory Board member(application required- To: The Director, unodays project, C/o Olubodun, O.J. University of Lagos, CMUL., P.M.B 12003, Lagos Nigeria; email: unodays@gmail.com Tel:+2348066389422, Skype:olufemi.olubodun
Board members shall be invited to give talks and address member of the public, University students etc when UN days are being celebrated through either online facilities or offline arrangement. Members shall be invited to visit countries where unodays project will hold an event from time to time.
Main speakers at unodays events shall be paid an honorarium and the cost of travel and accommodation shall be funded where applicable but subject to availability of funds.


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Support and Event Programmes


Unodays project will give support (with global spread) to  victims of violence e.g. domestic violence, sexually abused persons etc and scholarships to students from all tiers of education and so organize her events in the following ways:
Support is defined as:
-financing school projects e.g. provision of desks and seats, construction and/or renovation of school buildings, and provision of infrastructures. The extent of these shall be defined by unodays advisory board members from time to time.
-scholarship shall include payment of full tuition, partial tuition, and project and conference fee for students of University or secondary school or pupils of primary schools, and for  victims of child abuse, domestic violence, disable persons as a result of war or other causes.  
Scholarship shall be given under the following criteria:
1. Students that perform best in overall coursework in case of a secondary or primary school. For a University it shall be a student (s) from a faculty or a department that offers courses related to the UN day being celebrated and also host a unodays’ event but in addition shall meet the requirements of a good academic standing as judged by unodays board.
2. School project shall be evaluated by the board and shall be undertaken when all issues surrounding a project has been concluded. On the recommendation of the board and subject to availability of funds, financial support may be given to a school to undertake the construction or renovation of an existing school building or to be directly handled by unodays representatives.
3. Scholarship and other financial support shall be given to the victims of circumstances defined above after their situation would have been evaluated by the unodays board.
Unodays project event shall include the following:
1.       A summary of issues reported over a period of one year from the press cuttings, web links, etc in the blog after being delineated from the contents of news reports over this period. First, bimonthly summaries which will add-up to yearly report that shall be presented at a public gathering.
2.       Event location shall be approved public places, schools, Colleges, and University halls. Location for any of unodays event shall be held when approval has been received from a location provider as listed above.
3.       Speakers at unodays event shall include staff of UNDP officials from any country, lecturers of Universities, head teachers that host an event; student leaders and any public figure deemed suitable by the board during a celebration. Professionals and experts in a field relevant to any of UN day being celebrated. For example UN day for peacekeepers shall hold in a military location and speakers shall be drawn from the military while children day celebration shall hold in a primary or secondary school and the head teacher should speak.
4.       Only members of advisory board or invited guest from UNDP office shall present a summary report.
Note: UN days are many and so not all the days being marked by UN shall be celebrated each year, but the board shall determine which day to be celebrated and shall be guided by the following criteria:
Days that promote the following key areas:  
    Peace and social justice  
    Education, information and Communication Technologies 
    Health 
    Governance and  Corruption 
    Gender and sexuality
           Security.


Conclusion: This  is subject to review when deemed suitable and at a short notice.

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