Chicago, USA: The volunteers shaved their heads at several St. Baldrick's events in 10 countries to raise money for pediatric cancer research.  Read article

Tete, Mozambique: In this remote corner of Tete, near the border with Zambia, cash-strapped parents often treat school as a luxury that is impractical and unaffordable. But last year, volunteers from the Mozambique Red Cross have been campaigning in several communities in Tete to convince parents and guardians that school is worth the sacrifice.  Read article

Claude Marshall has been a full-time volunteer consultant at UNHCR for the past 14 years, helping tens of thousands of refugees around the world. Much of his work since then has focused on raising public awareness and private sector support for sport and education programmes for refugee children. Marshall is preparing to hand over to a full-time successor, thus ensuring that the programmes he started will continue to benefit refugee children. He sat down with UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond to discuss his volunteer work and the future of the programme he began.   Read article

Nairobi, Kenya: In Kenya, government agencies and volunteer organizations are joining hands to support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.  Aside from holding a ceremony to commemorate IVD, volunteers from various agencies will also visit orphanages and hold a tree-planting session.  Read article

Sohag: At the Rowing Club on the banks of the Nile in Sohag Governorate – about 500 kilometres south of Cairo- celebrations took place on Monday as the eight feluccas of the “Sailing the Nile for Development” project approached the bank  Read article

Through volunteers' help, a project in South Africa's coastal Western Cape Province is trying to empower communities to protect their children from violence and substance abuse.  Read article

Kabul, Afghanistan: Thousands of volunteers and healthworkers have been deployed in Afghanistan to ensure all children under age five are vaccinated against polio.  Read article

Buseleni, Swaziland: Swaziland, a country of just over a million people, is estimated to have 70,000 children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Expecting this figure to rise, the government and international agencies have set up a network of some 430 volunteer-run meeting points to care for these orphans and children at-risk.  Read article

Cange, Haiti: In the pediatric clinic of the small community of Cange, east of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, Estrella Torres, a volunteer pediatrician sees dozens of sick children everyday, brought by parents who are sometimes as sick as the babies.  Read article

El Salvador is not only a “country of beautiful beaches, dramatic scenery, and friendly people”, but of poverty, suffering and child labour too. This is what Lauren McElroy of USA found during her volunteer work there, helping children working in marketplaces to learn and play.  Read article