Karen Roberts, National Manager of Volunteering, says IHC is putting its focus on youth over the next year. She says young people with intellectual disabilities want to be like every other young person. In the meantime, though, all the work of its hundreds of volunteers is to be acknowledged with special events on 5 December, International Volunteer Day.

See also the New Zealand IVD blog: http://ivd2008.blogspot.com/

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AAVA is a professional association for individuals across all sections of the community who are involved with managing volunteer programs within the Australasian region, including Australia and New Zealand.  AAVA is concerned with 'building the sector' through the support, encouragement and recognition of people involved in leading volunteer programs.  Visit site

Listings of jobs, volunteer posts, scholarships and internship opportunities in the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.  Visit site

This year for IV Day we are encouraging a lot of local activity and with the assistance of the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector (a Government agency) an electronic toolkit has been produced to assist organisations with their promotional programmes.   Read entry