The National Ministry of Health was encouraging homosexual volunteers to teach other homosexuals about AIDS, the Guangzhou Daily reported Wednesday, 23 June. "The government's support is very important for us," said an unnamed Guangzhou volunteer. The 40-year-old gay man said a lack of a formal organization was the biggest problem for volunteers.  Read article

London: Scope, a UK-based volunteer organization, is conducting two surveys on disabilism in volunteering, one for people with disabilities and another for volunteer managers working in project with and for disabled people.  Read article

New York: The United Nations health agency marks World Blood Donor Day by thanking the millions of anonymous donors who save lives every day by giving blood – and by raising awareness of the dearth of safe blood for billions of people around the world.  Read article

Seoul: Volunteer 21, a volunteer organization recently surveyed 1,600 Korean adults and found that 20.5 percent were involved in volunteer work. With an adult population of 37 million, that would amount to 7.5 million people. Volunteer 21 says the figure would rise to 10 million if it included middle and high school students who volunteer in order to receive academic credit.  Read article

El Premio reconoce los beneficios que el sector voluntario no gubernamental aporta a la misión de la salud pública y al mejoramiento de la vida de los pueblos de las Américas.  Read article

“Make Poverty History”, a UK-based campaign to raise awareness on how to end poverty, has attracted the support of millions of individuals within and outside the country. The campaign’s popularity, as most of its detractors argue, lies on endorsement of entertainment celebrities (led by musician Bob Geldof) and not because people are able to grasp the essentials on how or why they should fight world poverty. Julian Baggini, of UK daily The Guardian, asks does it matter if most of the “ordinary people” don't really know what they're campaigning or volunteering for?  Read article

After UK concluded its Volunteers’ Week celebrations, the country is taking stock. In Josie Appleton’s article in Spiked, an online publication, she writes why politics and volunteering don’t mix, arguing that the spontaneity and spirit of volunteering is lost because “the new brand of doing good talks the jargonized language of bureaucracy.”  Read article

São Paulo: Divulgar os oitos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio (ODM) através do treinamento de professores de escolas públicas.  Read article

Taipei: Taiwan's number of volunteer groups has increased by 17 per cent, according to reports from the Ministry of Interior.  Read article

London: UK's Volunteers' Week was launched this week, 1-6 June, with the aim of increasing further the record levels of people participating in voluntary work in Britain.  Read article