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08 April 2008
 Hundreds of volunteers build house for Iraqi war veterans by Melanie Stetson Freeman
Homes for veterans are built by volunteers with donated materials. (by Melanie Stetson Freeman, CS Monitor, April 2008)
Sgt. Brian Fountaine was recovering in Walter Reed Army Medical Center when he got an unexpected visitor who offered to build him a house -- free of charge. The visitor was John Gonsalves, founder of Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit volunteer group that builds houses for severely injured veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.  Read article
From: Christian Science Monitor
More about: United States
08 April 2008
 A study in contrasts: Volunteering in Ghana refugee camp  by Heather Ibbotson
Months spent as volunteers in a refugee camp for Liberians provided a quick immersion into the eye-opening contradictions of modern Africa for two young Canadian women.  Read article
More about: Canada  Ghana
26 July 2006
 Syrian volunteers help evacuees from Lebanon 
Volunteers at a border crossing point in Syria attending to people leaving Lebanon. (Courtesy: IFRC)
Volunteers from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society are working round the clock near crossing points at the Lebanon-Syria border to help thousands of people fleeing the fighting in Lebanon.  Read article
From: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
More about: Lebanon  Syria  Emergency relief  Refugees
26 July 2006
 Volunteers move pets to safety in Lebanon by Donna Abu Nasr (AP)
A Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (BETA) volunteer plays with a dog at a farm in Monteverde, 15 kilometers (9 miles) east of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, 25 July 2006, after they were moved from a shelter near a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs because they were traumatized by the Israeli shelling. The howls of 133 canine refugees from Israeli attacks on Beirut echoed through the pine-and oak-covered hills above the Lebanese capital Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Monteverde, Lebanon: Animal welfare volunteers rescued over 200 abandoned pets in Beirut and moved them eastwards, away from airstrikes against Hezbollah strongholds in the south. Foreign embassies told evacuees fleeing Israeli bombardment that pets are not allowed on ships and helicopters transporting them to countries such as Syria and Cyprus.   Read article
From: Associated Press (AP)
More about: Lebanon  Peacekeeping
18 July 2006
 2,400 Red Cross volunteers start rescue, relief work in Lebanon 
Youth volunteers are busy sorting humanitarian assistance in the Lebanese Red Cross centres for distribution to the most vulnerable. (Courtesy: IFRC)
The Lebanese Red Cross has mobilized 2,400 emergency rescue and first aid volunteers, as well as some 200 ambulances to evacuate and provide emergency relief to people wounded or displaced in the bombings by Israeli army.  Read article
From: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
More about: Israel  Lebanon  Emergency relief  Young volunteers

 

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Tsunami Volunteer Center 
The Tsunami Volunteer Center, based in Khao Lak, Thailand, was founded in January 2005 in response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami. TVC is a Thai-led NGO funded almost entirely by private donation and is not affiliated with any religions. Its aim is to assist in the restoration of tsunami-affected communities through empowerment. The Center serves strictly as a “partner organization” in that projects undertaken by the Center are driven exclusively by community needs and are executed in full partnership with village members.  Visit site
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30 November 2006, 09:16
Serving the homeless in Jamaica 
Jamaican volunteers will be serving around 300 homeless people. They will be given food, clothes and medical check-ups.   Read entry
From: IVD 2006 Blog
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