Lubumbashi, DR Congo : Elections stole the headlines in 2006, but volunteers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are quietly giving back to nature what it had been stripped of in the years before.  Read article

Nashville, Tennessee: Former United States Vice President Al Gore, the star of a documentary derived from his slide show on global warming, is about to begin training 1,000 "Climate Project" volunteers to help spread his environmental message around the globe.  Read article

Beijing, China: The Global Village of Beijing (GVB) is trying to raise awareness among Chinese people on how to dispose e-waste properly with help from international volunteers.  Read article

Damascus, Syria: More than 10,000 volunteers recently helped clean up Syria’s coastline as part of a national campaign to protect the country’s coasts and promote volunteerism.  Read article

Jaipur, India: Shortage of water has been a tale of woe in India's Rajasthan state for decades. But this year, the state's largest circulated Hindi daily, Rajasthan Patrika, has motivated around 155,000 volunteers to clean up 388 discarded traditional ponds and wells.  Read article

Montevideo, Uruguay: Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, is home to half the country’s population. Many of the city’s residents live in shanty towns with little access to public services and often do not possess land titles for their homes. Because of this dire situation, people started to organized themselves and volunteered their skills and experience to create a more favourable neighbourhood.   Read article

Melbourne: More than 1200 volunteers were recognized by Trust for Nature, an environmental non-profit organization for International Volunteer Day on 5 December in Melbourne, Australia.  Read article

Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, the Inter-American Development Bank’s Inter-American Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics and Development and the UN-Habitat will launch “Cities with Heart” on International Volunteer Day, 5 December.  Read article

When Pham Hong Nhung was in secondary school, her simple wish was to take part in the activities organized by her local youth union. Months later, Pham became one of UNV's most active volunteers in preserving Viet Nam's fragile mangrove areas.  Read article

Oxford: Earthwatch, the international environmental organization, is calling for volunteers to take part in its new "Namibian Black Rhino project" to help save this species from extinction.  Read article