Baku: More than 300 people today joined the first International Volunteer Day (IVD) celebrations in Azerbaijan by participating in tree-planting activities and distributing information materials in the Seaside National Park, one of the country's largest, in the capital Baku.  Read article

Arthur Gillette, former Director of UNESCO's Division of Youth, writes about the "brief" history of volunteering from the pre-industrial era up to present.  Read article