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International Volunteer Day, 5 December
GRACE Association Pakistan Team Won the UNV Online Volunteering Award 2009!
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme on International Volunteer Day, 5 December announced the winners of the "Online Volunteering Award 2009", honouring the 'outstanding' contributions of volunteers who work entirely over the internet to contribute to peace and development by helping non-profit development organizations. The awards are an initiative of the UNV Online Volunteering service.
Supporting 'Volunteering for our Planet', the UNV theme for International Volunteer Day (IVD) on 5 December, a special award honoured the efforts of online volunteers to support community adaptation and innovation and help mitigate environmental issues.
A jury of experts in volunteerism and development cooperation chose the winners based on their commitment and contributions, the results of their collaboration and their impact on the activities of the organizations they supported. The jury included Mr. Nicolas Alipui , Director of Programmes at UNICEF, Mr. Mauro Massoni, the Head of the Multilateral Office of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Taras Tymchuk , Programme Coordinator of the GURT Resource Center for NGO Development, Ukraine, as well as UNV representatives from country offices and headquarters.
GRACE Association congrats to all winning teams of the UNV Online Volunteering Award 2009, especially to the GRACE Team of 10 online volunteers that helped GRACE Association of Pakistan to improve the quality of life of marginalized and vulnerable communities in less developed parts of Northern Pakistan:
Aisha Mian, Jennifer Wells, Kalloimora Bzepam, Katie Simons, Laura Gamboa-Cavazos, Laura Riveni, Loai Farajallah, Paula Ellinger da Fonseca, Sehrish Rashid, Yvonne Nelson!!
On the IVD GRACE Association Pakistan thanks the UNV for selecting GRACE Association Pakistan’s team as one of the winners of the UNV Online Volunteering Award 2009!
Please visit onlinevolunteering.org for detail.
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Chief Executive, GRACE Association Pakistan Mr. Khadim Hussain and Mr. Larry Schwartz, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy Islamabad, Pakistan, signed an agreement on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 to run the English ACCESS Microscholarship Program at Grace Public School Skardu for the next two years.
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GRACE received a grant from the Government of Japan for a water supply project to provide safe drinking water through the provision of water supply system to the residents of Astana Bala, Astana paeen, Gultri colony and Brolumo colony in Skardu .. read_more...
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Members of GRACE report that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Waziristan can only sustain themselves for a short time with very limited provisions that they have been able to carry with them so that basic relief assistance is required. read_more... |
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