London, UK: UK Chancellor Gordon Brown will call on employers and employees to work in their communities to provide a million new volunteers by 2012.  Read article

Islamabad, Pakistan: The United Nations (UN) in Pakistan yesterday awarded four volunteers who contributed to last year's earthquake relief operations, a disaster that left over 73,000 dead and three million displaced people.  Read article

Warsaw, Poland: The Polish-American Freedom Foundation launched a volunteer programme for students who would like to help underprivileged schoolchildren in rural areas improve their learning skills. Programmes like these have been attracting a growing number of young Poles every year.  Read article

Atlanta, USA: Employees of the international package carrier, UPS, will volunteer some 100,000 hours in 50 countries to undertake various community activities.   Read article

Some call them lazy, more interested in partying hard than helping out. But a new study shows college students volunteer at a rate that's grown sharply over the last few years.  Read article

Doha, Qatar: Young girls at a Qatari school are learning the importance of charity work by getting actively engaged in the design and implementation of charitable projects. School administrators say that the students’ hands-on involvement in charity helps enhance their awareness of social issues.   Read article

West Bank, Occ. Palestinian Territory: An American volunteer teacher was freed unharmed after being held for a day by Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus in a bizarre kidnapping.  Read article

London, UK: London Olympic organizers have 100,000 volunteers interested in helping out at the 2012 games — 30,000 more than needed.  Read article

San Francisco, USA: More than 100,000 volunteers cleaned 1,100 parks -- from the smallest urban tot-lot to the Grand Canyon -- during National Public Lands Day in the United States.  Read article

Beijing, China: Chang Wu, designer of the Beijing Olympic emblem, needed to discover the "unique" heart to represent volunteers for the upcoming games.  Read article