...neighbourhoods, annual global environmental initiative. And every day millions of volunteers all over the world--farmers, fishermen, pilots, etc.--read instruments and pass along critical data to help communities predict extreme weather conditions and better cope with the effects.

Spearheaded by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), these examples illustrate eloquently how private individuals volunteer their time, energy and resources towards efforts by UN agencies to fulfil the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed, "it is not at the United Nations that the MDGs will be achieved. Citizens everywhere, through volunteerism, constitute a tremendous force in helping to make the realization of the Goals a reality".

Volunteerism acts as an effective gateway between the United Nations system and the global citizen. According to one definition of "gateway", it is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network. That captures the essence of volunteerism....

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