King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia took part in the Volunteer Day 2020 event

On September 8, 2020, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain took part in the Volunteer Day event held at Palacio de Viana in Córdoba. Volunteer Day (Día del Cooperante) is celebrated in Spain to honor Spanish volunteers who make an immense contribution to sustainable development and eradication of poverty in the most vulnerable regions of the world.

Volunteer Day or Development Cooperation Day is celebrated on September 8, because on this day in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration was adopted at the Millennium Summit held at the UN Headquarters in New York City. The declaration included the Millennium Development Goals such as eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, universal primary education, gender equality and women’s empowerment, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, malaria, and other diseases, environmental sustainability, and global partnership for development.

The celebration of the Volunteer Day was started by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), which was founded in 1988 under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain. The main tasks of the agency is to design and implement development cooperation projects and programs, as well as to coordinate humanitarian work abroad. The agency's work largely depends on volunteers who apply their professional skills in the world’s most deprived regions.

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