International Youth Day is celebrated every year on 12th August and was founded in the year 2000, by the United Nations. The purpose of International Youth Day is to develop awareness of cultural and legal issues that affect youths and to help engage young people to become active in creating […]
Celebrating Refugee Week 2018
This week UNA Exchange welcomes Carys Price from Cardiff Met University. She is doing a communication and marketing internship. This week is refugee week and as part of this, Carys has researched the history and aims of the United Nations’ initiative and how to get involved with UNA Exchange. […]
UNA Exchange accredited as Living Wage Employer
UNA Exchange has become accredited as Living Wage Employer. The real Living Wage is based on the cost of living and is voluntarily paid by over 4,200 UK employers who believe a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. It’s the mark of a responsible employer as well as […]
Supporting people-centred rural development and environmental protection in South-East Asia
For several years UNA Exchange has worked in partnership with the Global Opportunity Centre at Cardiff University to provide a programme of group volunteering with projects in South-East Asia. This summer students will take part in month-long projects across Japan and Vietnam, supporting people-centred rural development and environmental protection. In […]
EVS life in Dresden
Winter is now finally over here in Dresden and the morning frost has given way to carpets of daffodils, bluebells, and lilies of the valley. The warm weather and long evenings have coaxed us outside and all of a sudden Dresden has come alive. […]
UNA Exchange is recruiting for a Programme Officer to deliver across our portfolio of short-term exchanges
UNA Exchange is a Cardiff-based international volunteering charity with ambitious plans for growth as we enter our 45th operational year. We are recruiting for a dynamic individual to join the team to deliver across our portfolio of short-term exchanges, including overseas group volunteering, individual volunteering abroad and domestic work camps. […]
Mae Cyfnewid UNA yn recriwtio Swyddog Prosiect i weithio ar draws ein portffolio o deithiau cyfnewid tymor byr
Mae Cyfnewid UNA yn elusen wirfoddoli ryngwladol yng Nghaerdydd, sydd â chynlluniau uchelgeisiol i dyfu, wrth i ni fynd i mewn i’n 45fed flwyddyn waith. Rydym yn recriwtio ar gyfer unigolyn deinamig i ymuno â’r tîm i weithio ar draws ein portffolio o deithiau cyfnewid tymor byr, sy’n cynnwys gwirfoddoli […]
Gwahoddiad i ymuno â Bwrdd Ymddiriedolwyr Cyfnewid UNA
Ydych chi’n teimlo’n angerddol dros ganlyniadau buddiol gwirfoddoli rhyngwladol? Ydych chi eisiau cefnogi nodau llesiant Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol gartref a nodau datblygu cynaliadwy’r Cenhedloedd Unedig ar draws y byd? A fedrwch chi rannu 8 diwrnod y flwyddyn o’ch amser i gefnogi twf sefydliad dielw uchelgeisiol? […]
Invitation to join the UNA Exchange Board of Trustees
Are you passionate about the beneficial outcomes of international volunteering? Ydych chi’n teimlo’n angerddol dros ganlyniadau buddiol gwirfoddoli rhyngwladol? Do you want to support Future Generations well-being goals at home and UN sustainable development goals worldwide? Ydych chi eisiau cefnogi nodau llesiant Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol gartref a nodau datblygu cynaliadwy’r Cenhedloedd […]
Meet our founder, Robert Davies
UNA Exchange in its current form has existed since 1973, but its history and heritage go back to the 1960s, when our founder, Robert Davies, first got involved with the United Nations Association. Since then, Davies also founded VCS Cymru, which is today the oldest Volunteer Bureau in the U.K. […]