International Volunteer Day in India
“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.
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From: IAVE
03 November 20062,000 volunteers build houses in India
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.
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The changing face of volunteering in India by Patralekha Chatterjee
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.
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Indian volunteers respond to train explosion
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.
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From: AlertNet
More about: Emergency relief
Volunteers stalk HIV ignorance on a trek around India by Scott Baldauf
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.
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10 October 2005
Read articleVolunteers join hands with agencies to rescue quake survivors
Rescue teams and volunteers have been frantically searching for survivors of the massive earthquake that hit parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on Saturday.
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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.
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From: PRWeb
22 July 2005More about: United States Activism
Indian newspaper gathers 155,000 volunteers for clean-up act by Ramesh Menon
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.
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From: OneWorld.net
28 June 2005Volunteer experts bring new hope to South Asian tsunami victims
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.
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14 April 2005
Read articleVolunteers ensure fair elections through local radio
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.
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