“Volunteers Shape the World” was the message this December 5, 2006 that the Indian Association of Volunteer Effort and People’s Institute for Development and Training spread as they celebrated the UN International Volunteer Day in the memory of all those volunteers working in difficult circumstances in disaster or postwar conditions and those working in different ways to achieve a world without poverty and want.   Read article

Lonavla, India: With the help of more than 2,000 volunteers from around the world, former US president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn are leading the annual Habitat for Humanity Project to provide houses to 100 families in India.   Read article

India is the largest democracy in the world. But without its lively civil society scene, many ills in society would continue unchallenged. Civil society derives its strength from the Gandhian tradition of volunteerism, but today, it expresses itself in many different forms of activism.  Read article

Mumbai, India: Indian Red Cross volunteers responded immediately to the explosions that rocked Mumbai's railway during yesterday's rush hour, killing at least 180. More than 300 people were also injured in the blasts, which ripped doors and windows off  carriages and threw passengers from trains.   Read article

Palwal, India: This is an educational program conducted by AIDS Walk for Life, a village to village tour by volunteers who are walking part - or all - of a more than 4,200-mile (6,720 kilometres) circuit around India. Their goal: to raise awareness about a disease that has already made India the country with the second-highest number of people living with HIV.   Read article

Rescue teams and volunteers have been frantically searching for survivors of the massive earthquake that hit parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on Saturday.   Read article

New York, USA: Working Abroad announces the launch of Volunteer in India, a new Volunteer Abroad program. The Volunteer in India program compliments other Volunteer Abroad programmes in Costa Rica, Peru and South Africa.  Read article

Jaipur, India: Shortage of water has been a tale of woe in India's Rajasthan state for decades. But this year, the state's largest circulated Hindi daily, Rajasthan Patrika, has motivated around 155,000 volunteers to clean up 388 discarded traditional ponds and wells.  Read article

Skilled international volunteers are supplementing local staff and volunteers in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand in tsunami recovery efforts in these countries. Volunteers bring not only skills, but sorely needed encouragement and energy as they build alongside local volunteers and homeowners.   Read article

Karnataka: Volunteers of Namma Dhwani (Our Voice), a community radio station in Karnataka, south of India, recently played an important role in ensuring free and fair local elections.  Read article