In June 2024, Better World and UNESCO showed the work of young volunteers at World Heritage sites on the outer wall of UNESCO Headquarters.
In June 2024, about a month before the Paris Olympic Games, Better World held a World Heritage volunteering photo exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Better World runs the Global Coordination of UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers (WHV). The exhibition ran until 23 June.
The photographs were hung on the outer wall that surrounds the headquarters, so UNESCO staff, people living in Paris and tourists could all see them. They presented the heritage preservation work and youth activities of the World Heritage Volunteers projects that Better World carried out with UNESCO in 33 countries in 2023. It was the second exhibition of its kind. The first was held in 2023 at the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo reported that Lazare Eloundou Assomo, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, thanked all the young people and volunteers taking part in WHV. He called for more attention to the sites where projects took place, among them the tidal flats of Sinan, Lake Malawi National Park, the Prambanan temple in Indonesia, Angkor Wat in Cambodia and the Wachau Cultural Landscape in Austria. The 21st photograph in the exhibition showed the WHV project in Sinan County, which supported the program in 2023 so that more countries could take part.
World Heritage Volunteers is a UNESCO World Heritage education program that had been running for 16 years at the time of the exhibition. For 2024, 69 organizations in 41 countries were carrying out 90 projects at 85 sites on the World Heritage List and the Tentative Lists. Better World ran the projects of the Asia-Pacific region for eight years from 2015, and since 2023 it has served as the Global Coordination, overseeing projects worldwide.
A regional training conference followed in Africa the next year. For six days from 1 May 2025, a WHV Africa regional training conference, organized jointly by Better World and UNESCO Headquarters, was held in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. Thirty-seven practitioners and managers from 24 countries shared their experience from 40 World Heritage sites.
