Java, Indonesia: Volunteers for the Indonesian earthquake are trying to communicate with victims through sign language and volunteer interpreters.   Read article

Toronto, Canada: In 2004, Canadians donated $8.9 billion and two billion volunteer hours — the equivalent of a million full-time jobs — according to the latest Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating done by Statistics Canada in partnership with government agencies and volunteer organizations.  Read article

Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations agencies, plus some 400 volunteers from the Indonesian Red Cross, have quickly mobilized relief operations for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the devastating earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java on 27 May.  Read article

Massachusetts, USA : Stirred by the plight of the estimated one million widows in Afghanistan, Retik and Quigley, who both lost their husbands on 11 September, established the Beyond the 11th foundation to help women in conflict-ridden countries.  Read article

Oregon, USA: US-based Northwest Medical Teams is sending highly trained medical volunteers to the island of Java on Tuesday to help care for thousands of survivors of Saturday's massive earthquake centered near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.   Read article

Singapore City, Singapore: Forty medical personnel and volunteers from Alexandra Hospital, the Singapore Red Cross and Mercy Relief left for Yogyakarta on Tuesday morning to help quake victims there.   Read article

Sraten, Indonesia: Volunteers started arriving in small numbers in this hard-to-reach village of 300 people. Villagers are not expecting volunteers like Tuti Winarti, a medical student, to travel from Central Java together with her father and 13 paramedics to help. They were relieved just the same.   Read article

Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Volunteer-run amateur radio operators in Indonesia are providing emergency communication for relief operations in the wake of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake Saturday affecting Yogyakarta and surrounding area.  Read article

Tasmania, Australia: Australian senator Guy Barnett proposed greater government assistance for volunteers who are facing rising costs while doing unpaid work.  Read article

Baghdad, Iraq: Even as violence and sectarian hatred tear Iraq's mixed cities apart, a growing number of Iraqis are trying to bring them together. Some 5,000 organizations, including charities, human rights groups and medical assistance agencies are trying to provide Iraqi people with basic necessities.  Read article