Giving up your time to help others can improve health and fitness. But new research has also found volunteering could boost your love life. Katrina Creer spoke to couples who discovered they had much more in common than just a good cause.  Read article

London, UK: A national awards scheme that will recognize and highlight the extraordinary volunteer work being undertaken by young people was launched recently by The Sunday Telegraph.   Read article

Manama, Bahrain: Three hundred volunteers from more than 40 countries are offering help to Bahrain's civil society organizations when they arrive in the country next month.  Read article

Seoul, Korea: The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), a government-funded agency announced its plans to increase its development budget from 183.5 billion won for 2005 to 384.2 billion won for 2009. Accordingly, starting this year, the project fee for overseas volunteer service teams will increase.   Read article

La Red de Gestores Sociales, estrategia nacional coordinada por la Presidencia de la Republica en Colombia, dedica su boletín numero 25 (diciembre 2005 - enero 2006) al Voluntariado, como tema prioritario en la construcción de un Estado Comunitario. En este boletín, entre otros temas, se habla de la figura del Vigía del Patrimonio, de la Corporación Opción Colombia, de la Corporación Colombiana de Voluntariado, de entidades que apoyan las acciones de Voluntariado en Colombia, así como de noticias y publicaciones relacionadas con el Voluntariado. El tema central del boletín esta dedicado al Voluntariado como proyección social de la solidaridad.  Read article

Teaching in Uganda with the Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) set the television journalist Jon Snow off on a life of volunteering. Here he talks about the effects of that life-changing experience.  Read article

Service For Peace (SFP) held IVD activities in 10 countries involving more than 4,600 volunteers and participants worldwide. Here are summaries of the celebrations.  Read article

2005 was UK's Year of the Volunteer, but did anyone really notice? Consultant Jamie Thomas looks back at the UK's most extensive celebration of volunteering and asks, "did it make a difference?".   Read article

Rabat, Maroc: L'action volontaire constitue un important instrument pour consacrer les nobles valeurs humaines, ont affirmé, lundi à Rabat, les participants à une journée sur «l'étude du volontariat et du bénévolat au Maroc».  Read article

Kigali, Rwanda: The national celebrations to mark International Volunteer Day 2005 were last week held in Kibuye province, with participants holding a procession to raise awareness on the role of volunteers in the world.  Read article