03 March 2008
Art, volunteerism and the MDGs by Christian Lozañes
Pasa Arte or Pass on Art is a volunteer project led by local artists in Iloilo, located in the southern part of the Philippines. Artists teach local school kids the basics of art and well-meaning individuals donate materials.
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Special Olympics Latin America joins IVD celebration
Special Olympics joins the celebration of the International Volunteer Day (IVD) officially recognizing the work from all those people that contribute in a volunteer and altruistic way to improve their environment in Latin America.
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30 November 2007
China marks IVD with a forum on Olympic volunteering
Beijing, China: From 5 to 13 December, the Beijing Youth Federation (BYF) together with UNV China is hosting an "International Volunteering Communication Week". The first part of the event will be part of the International Volunteer Day celebration in the country.
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09 August 2007
Volunteer Diary: Being a team leader
Beijing, China: I was chosen to be one of the team leaders for the volunteers in cycling events for "Good Luck Beijing". The organizers gave us a series of training courses on how to lead a team and how to be a good leader in order to complete the work well. The training courses were really hard. We had to get up at six in the morning and begin our training class. After all, there is so much we need to learn that we should get familiar with the job as soon as possible.
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08 August 2007
Not a cloud in the way by Rowan Callick
China has decreed that it will not rain on the main stadium during the Beijing Olympics next year. This iron-clad assurance comes from Zhang Qiang, the head of Beijing's Weather Manipulation Office, who says "we will provide a guarantee" the stadium will not be rained on through the use of anti-aircraft guns to seed silver iodide sticks into clouds that dare drift towards the arena, thus causing any rain to fall well short.
The two big issues are combating pollution and creating an open-minded, user-friendly army of 100,000 volunteers capable of meeting the demands of a half-million foreigners in a stranger world than some may have imagined.
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