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31 December 2021

UNV India V-Force Volunteer Shaunak Chakraborty 0

Through the IVD campaign this year, Volunteer now for our common future, we aim to inspire people, whether they are decision makers or citizens of this world, to take action NOW for people and the planet.

When people are encouraged to get involved in solving problems, the solutions are more likely to be feasible and lasting. Volunteers engage communities and build a people-centric movement to help build a better and safer future for us all.

For the generations of TOMORROW, we must take responsibility for the changes needed to build a better future NOW. Encouraging, recognizing and promoting volunteerism is an important part of creating a more equal and inclusive future for communities and worldwide.

7 November 2021

UNV India V-Force Volunteer Shaunak Chakraborty 5

Greeting V-Force Volunteers

Hope you people are doing well and absolutely healthy with a spirit of volunteerism. You may be thinking that what is V-Force? what is the concept and structure of it?

So in short V-Force India is an initiative of United Nations Volunteers India. The objective V-Force India is to encourage volunteerism by providing an opportunity for local volunteers to engage with United Nations and enable them to contribute to sustainable development. V-Force India is created as a platform for community engagement, reaching out to people of all ages, backgrounds, and skills and integrating them into a range of activities carried out by UN agencies in India.

So there will be a few assignments and each assignment contains 4-7 tasks, a volunteer needs to complete all the given assignments for getting eligible for the certificate. The assignments and other updates will be shared on the Google Classroom of that particular campaign so make sure that you have joined it, the updates will be shared on the campaign page of the official V-Force website as well.

Google Drive folder

You have to create a Google drive folder and name it as, say for example for International Volunteer Day 2021 the name should be IVD2021_Your Name, for International Youth Day 2022 it should be IYD2022_Your Name. You have to take screenshots, photos, etc of your work and upload all these in this Google drive folder. You may further create subfolders named Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Assignment 3, etc in this main folder. At the end of the campaign, we will provide you with a feedback form in which you have to paste the link of this main folder i.e IVD2021_Your Name. Remember that you have to make your drive folder public.

Social media presence

You may not be on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, it is suggested to join at least any of these platforms but you must join the Google Classroom of that particular campaign as every campaign have a different classroom or maybe two classrooms in some cases if the number of volunteers will exceed.

Google Classroom

Every assignment will be posted with a due date in the Google classroom and a volunteer needs to submit the assignment before the time which is generally 11:59 PM on that due date. Remember that if you have created subfolders named Assignment 1, 2, 3, etc then you have to submit the link of Assignment 1 only for the first assignment and not the link of the main folder i.e IVD2021_Your Name because if you do that then the editing rights will be transferred to UNV India and you will not able to upload any file in further assignment folders.

Evaluation

After you submit the feedback form then generally it takes 2-3 weeks for the team to evaluate the work and issue the certificates to the eligible volunteers. Any updates regarding certificates will be informed on the official social media channels as well as the campaign page on the website of V-Force.

If you have any other queries related to the tasks then join the official Telegram group and connect with the team as well as experienced volunteers. It is recommended to read the FAQs carefully.

Summary

1. The first step is to register for V-Force.

2. Read the handbook completely.

3. Join the Google Classroom.

4. Join the Facebook group and Telegram group (optional).

5. Go to Google Drive and create a folder as WED2022_Your name, For e.g WED2022_Shaunak Chakraborty.

6. Inside that folder create folders like Assignment 1, Assignment 2, and Assignment 3.

7. Take the screenshots of your posts that you had posted on your social media handles and upload those screenshots in the respective assignment folder.

8. All the assignments and other tasks will be posted on Google Classroom so make sure that you had joined it.

9. Before the due date of the assignment, you have to attach the link of that particular assignment drive folder to Google Classroom. If you can’t complete your assignment within the given time for any genuine reason that’s okay don’t worry and take your time, it can be considered only for one assignment not for all.

10. At the end of this campaign you will be asked to fill a feedback form in which you have to attach the link of the entire drive folder in which all assignment folders are there.

10 September 2021

UNV India V-Force Volunteer Shaunak Chakraborty 0

On the theme “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health” on 12 August 2021 UNV India will be celebrating International Youth Day 2021 to highlight that youth engagement remains central to the transformation of food systems in the world and India.

Dr. Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Food Systems Summit stated that “We cannot implement the science without also addressing questions of access, equality and finance, and we cannot build a better future for tomorrow without including the youth of today”.

‟ If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… The people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Cesar Chavez

The theme for this year is, “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”, which aims to highlight that the success of such a global effort will not be achieved without the meaningful participation of young people.

Food systems include not only the basic elements of how we get
food from farms to the table, but also all of the processes and
infrastructure involved in feeding a population, and the negative
externalities that can be generated during the process, such as
air and ocean pollution as well as desertification.

Population health is also key in addressing food systems
challenges, especially as nutrition-related chronic diseases such
as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some forms of
cancer are major contributors to the global burden of disease.
Youth engagement is key to the transformation of food systems
as they play a crucial role working towards the implementation
of the Sustainable Development Goals and related frameworks.

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Above is the newsletter of the International Youth Day 2021 campaign which shows the work of V-Force Volunteers throughout this campaign. Almost 500 new volunteers have participated and out of those few outstanding works have been featured in this. Volunteers have explained so nicely that What does good food means to them? why healthy food is necessary for a living? and lots of many things. The V-Force community has welcomed every opinion from their side.