RESPECT University Volunteers Receive Award
Congratulations to RESPECT University!
On 5 December 2007, the United Nations (UN) Volunteers Online Volunteering Service announced RESPECT University's team of volunteers was selected to receive the Online Volunteering Team of the Year Award. They are one of ten volunteer teams from around the world to receive the award this year.
RESPECT University addresses two of the eight UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The work of the other volunteer teams addresses only one of the eight MDGs. The MDGs RESPECT University addresses are:
- MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- MDG 8: Develop a global partnership for development
For more than a year, Ashok Pillai has been the volunteer coordinator for RESPECT University. Ashok coordinates the contributions of a group of volunteers he continues to work to expand.
Photos courtesy of UN Volunteers
With the help of the local course coordinator, RESPECT University students in Ghana review the course instructions they received from their tutor.
You can read more about RESPECT University and the other volunteer teams on the UNV website. We will include comments from the 30 team members in the next issue of the e-Zine, to be published 28 December 2007.
RESPECT University was started by RESPECT founder and president Marc Schaeffer. It provides refugees and internally displaced persons with an opportunity for personal, academic, and community development by offering high school graduates free post-secondary courses by correspondence. The first two courses were launched in the Spring of 2003.
This is the fifth year in a row RESPECT volunteers have won Online Volunteer of the Year awards. RESPECT volunteers to receive an individual Online Volunteer of the Year Award are:
- 2006 - Dieudonné Amisi Mutambala
- 2005 - Sandrine Cortet
- 2004 - Will Wallace
- 2003 - Paul Fifen Chimy