The UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) has recently published information about the World Heritage Volunteers Campaign 2019, which will provide empowering and enriching opportunities to young people, enabling them to go beyond borders to work in World Heritage sites. For its twelfth year, the World Heritage Volunteers Initiative includes 68 action camp projects, which will be implemented at 62 World Heritage properties and sites inscribed on the Tentative Lists, from June to December 2019, by 55 organisations in 36 countries.

Background

The World Heritage Volunteers Initiative was launched in 2008 to encourage young people to undertake concrete actions and to play an active role in the protection, preservation and promotion of World Heritage sites. It consists of action camps created by youth organisations or institutions in cooperation with multiple stakeholders and partners that work all together for the state of conservation of World Heritage sites. It is led by the UNESCO WHC in collaboration with the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS), the European Heritage Volunteers (as a branch of Open Houses) and Better World.

Further information

The full list of voluntary positions available can be found on the UNESCO website at https://whc.unesco.org/en/volunteers2019/ For additional information about the World Heritage Volunteers Initiative and the 2019 Campaign, please visit http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1965