Namaste! My name is Shiho Tobita, International United Nations Volunteer from Japan. I am currently working in the United Nations Population Fund in Nepal as a Youth Development Officer.

As my job title implies, I am working with/for young people in Nepal. My responsibility, especially, is to reinforce the UNFPA-Nepal's Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health (ASRH) Programme with National NGO and district partner NGO. Through the networks of those NGOs, I want to support the empowerment and mobilization of young people for policy advocacy and creating supportive environment on ASRH issues at various levels. I believe that this will, in the end, contribute to the improvement of RH status of young people in Nepal.

My name is Anna Adhikari, I'm 35 and I come from Poland. I have two kids - 9 and 3 year old. I'm volunteering at UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, as the Strategic Communications Officer. UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity.

My job is to make sure that the policy makers and the whole society understand how important it is to use population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

I volunteer at UNFPA because I believe that no woman should die giving life

I am Dr.M.M Taimur Hasan from Bangladesh working as IUNV since February 2008 with UNHCR/Nepal for the Bhutanese Refugee operation in Jhapa district of Eastern Nepal as Health & Nutrition Coordinator. Before that I worked as a NUNV for four years in Bangladesh with UNHCR in Rohinga refugee operation.

Under the supervision of the Field Officer (Protection), I plan the work and running of the Best Interests Determination (BID) sub-unit and coordinate the work of BID staff strategically, taking into consideration the individual circumstances of the cases, ensuring that priority needs and specific protection requirements of the cases are met. [nb. BIDs are conducted in the following situations: (i) The identification of durable solutions for unaccompanied and separated refugee children (of which resettlement is one of these options); (ii) Determining the most appropriate temporary care arrangements for unaccompanied or separated children in exceptional situations (i.e. abuse or neglect by caregiver); and, (iii) The possible separation of a child from his or her parents against their will].

My name is Bimal Babu Khatri. I am hailed from Ramechhap, one of the hilly and remote districts of Nepal. It has been almost two years that I have been with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a National United Nations Volunteer being based in its Sub-Office in Damak, Jhapa located in southern east part of Nepal.

I am responsible for public information, media and external relations of the office and involve actively in the mass information activities that UNHCR conducts targeting to the refugees from Bhutan living in the seven refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang districts since early 1990. UNHCR, in cooperation with government and NGOs provides international protection and works to ensure respect for human rights while providing basic humanitarian assistance to these refugees. Currently, there are about 85,000 refugees reside in those seven camps.

Prior to working with UNHCR, I worked for National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Nepal from January 2005 to January 2008 as the Communications Officer. I had started my professional career before five years ago from one of the reputed newspapers of the country 'Gorkhapatra Daily' before joining to NHRC.

I am supporting the District Development Committee Officer to District Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation System (DPMAS) and Decentralized Management Information System (DMIS).

I served in the civil service of Nepal for 21 years at different designations. In the immediate past I was working as a Statistical Officer in the Central Bureau of Statistics, Kathmandu.

My name is Anna-Marie Guiney and I am from Ireland. I have been working as a UNV Intern with UNICEF Nepal in their water and sanitation section for almost one year now. My main job has been to work closely with a national NGO which has been contracted to carry out training for local NGOs in four districts in Nepal on school water, sanitation and hygiene. As part of this training, NGOs learned about child, gender and differently- abled friendly latrine design as well as modules on life skills education for students and teachers in the schools in relation to hygiene and sanitation. The main purpose of this capacity building has not only been to provide new skills at the local level but to use this learning to influence government and other partners at the national level. This initiative will be a new challenge for the water and sanitation section in UNICEF but one we hope to stand up to.

I am Masa working at Peace Building and Recovery Unit, UNDP Nepal. It has been 16 months passed since I have been involved in Peace building in Nepal and I am so glad to be.

My task is to manage the two projects, Assistance to Peace Process in Nepal (APPN) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery Support to Nepal (CPRSN) from financial and administrative aspects.

Fortunately, one of our most important activities of APPN project, discharging the disqualified Maoist Combatants, has just launched after waiting for almost three years!!

I work in a joint project of UNDP and Government of Nepal, Micro-Enterprise Development Project. My project's target group is people living under the Nepalese poverty line, minorities, women and other socially excluded groups. My project does poverty alleviation work by micro-enterprise creation in the rural areas of Nepal. As there are already 40 000 enterprises created, my task is to find solutions, how to help these entrepreneurs to make their businesses sustainable, how to find markets for their products and ways to develop their products' quality for example. The work is very challenging as the entrepreneurs come from very low educational and poor backgrounds and they are located in the remote parts of the country. In addition to linking the entrepreneurs with NGOs and businesses and offering them different kinds of training, I also get to visit the entrepreneurs in their villages and offer them my advice directly. That is the most rewarding part of this work.

I am Purushottam Adhikari, National UNV Volunteers working as a Programme Coordinator for the National Development Volunteer Service of Nepal. I have ten years experience in the field of decentralization, governance, social mobilization, HIV/AIDS.

I started my volunteer service in Nepal in October 2009 under the Spanish University Volunteer programme coordinated by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and UNV.

Prior to UNV I had volunteering experiences in various countries, as I consider volunteerism an essential part to my personal and professional development.

I am currently completing my degree in Law and Business Administration in Spain, and when I finish I would like to pursue a career in international cooperation.

In 2008-2009 I studied a Master in International Cooperation and Development in Madrid, Spain. Thanks to the UNV-Spanish University Volunteer programme in which my university participated, I could apply for the assignment in Nepal and come here for six months.

I am currently supporting the UNV COT.