Meet Our UNVs90 Minutes to help (by Zeid Al-Khail Kassouha)
Since I started working with refugees in August 2007, I have had many wonderful and touching experiences that have made a real change in my life and how I see things.
One such experience was participating in the World Refugee Day fundraising concert organized by UNHCR at the Opera House in Damascus on 16 June 2008. Before 1300 spectators, the Iraqi musician and Oud virtuoso Naseer Shamma played some of his most moving compositions about Iraq, in support of his compatriots, many now refugees in Syria.
I joined the UNV Programme in Syria as Programme Officer in January 2007 after having spent a year in Laos and Sri Lanka. My job is to advocate, integrate and mobilize volunteers and voluntarism in Development Programmes. I have a background in International Development and Social Sciences from Copenhagen in Denmark, where I was born and raised.