The Volontaires of the United Nations is an agency of the United Nations who deploys volunteers to support directly on the ground of other organizations of UNO. The agency, managed by the Program of the United Nations for the development (UNDP) and with its seat with Bonn in Germany, uses offices of the UNDP in the countries where he works.

Since 1971, more than 30.000 volunteers worked with the VNU in more than 140 Developing country.

Some statistics (September 2006)

• 7.218 - many missions since January 2006
• 7.053 - numbers of volunteers since January 2006
• 5.071 - many volunteers in September
• 2.867 - numbers in Africa (798 in the Democratic republic of Congo)
• 804 - numbers in Asia and the Peaceful
• 578 - numbers in America
• 501 - numbers in the Arab Countries
• 321 - numbers in Europe, in CEI and the Baltic States
• 34,2% - percentage of the women
• 32,5% - percentage of the national volunteers
• 136 - numbers of countries where the VNU works in 2006

External bonds

• VNU Official site
• Annual report 2005/06
• Annual report, pdf
• VNU different topics in short
• Become voluntary