name: United Nations Volunteers
text: The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) is the volunteer arm of the United Nations. It was created by the UN General Assembly in 1970 to serve as an operational partner in development cooperation at the request of UN member states. It is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and works through UNDP's country offices around the world.
  
  In 2005, its eigth consecutive year of growth, the UNV programme mobilized some 8,400 volunteers, representing 168 nationalities, who served in 144 countries. Since 1971, more than 30,000 UN Volunteers from developing and industrialized nations have supported peace, relief and development initiatives worldwide.
  
  http://www.unv.org/