Valera, Venezuela: La Brigada de Rescate Especial y Comunicación Valera 24 (Breycov 24), conmemoró ayer 5 de diciembre el Día Internacional de los Voluntarios, fecha institucionalizada desde el año 1985 por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas para celebrar el esfuerzo que realizan los voluntarios en todo el mundo.  Read article

Sevilla: Decenas de personas guardaron hoy un minuto de silencio ante el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla durante la inauguración de los actos conmemorativos del Día del Voluntariado, en señal de luto y de condena por la muerte ayer de una mujer de 54 años en Basauri (Vizcaya), supuestamente a manos de su marido.  Read article

Khartoum, Sudan: Over 500 people participated in the International Volunteer Day (IVD) celebrations in El Yarmouk, a community located 20 km south from Sudan's capital Khartoum, on 5 December, cleaning public places and planting trees.  Read article

Santiago: Em cabo verde, para assinalar o Dia Internacional do Voluntário , sob o lema “Voluntariado - Acção para mudar o mundo”, decorreu, no passado dia 05 de Dezembro de 2004, a primeira Assembleia dos Voluntários de Santiago na Cidade da Praia .  Read article

Tirana, Albania: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme along with the Circus of Tirana, the Albanian Youth Council and non-governmental organizations MJAFT! and VIS held a circus show in Tirana on 6 December to bring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) closer to orphans on the occasion of International Volunteer Day.  Read article

Geneva: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent is launching an “unprecented campaign” to protect children in Togo from three killer diseases – malaria, measles and polio.  Read article

This time of year, Santa Claus is simply too busy to answer all the letters himself, so a small army of elves in the East Valley gives him a hand. In Mesa, Barb McReynolds and some colleagues at the downtown police station take the lion’s share — responding with hand-written notes to more than 200 children in the few weeks before Christmas.  Read article

Georgetown: Several activities were organized in Guyana to mark this year’s International Volunteers Day (IVD).  Read article

Boston: He is a former gang member, with bullet wounds for scars and a criminal record that follows him wherever he goes.  Read article

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Famous Sri Lankan cricketer Muthiah Muralitharan joined International Volunteer Day celebrations with 200 volunteers from various volunteer sending agencies in Sri Lanka.  Read article