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

Ontario, Canada: The 2007 Canada Winter Games signed up its 2,000th volunteer on the weekend but organizers say they need at least twice that number before the event begins in February.   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

London, UK: UK Social exclusion Minister Hilary Armstrong today visited Mencap in Preston to mark the announcement of almost £1m of funding to increase volunteering by those at risk of social exclusion.  Read article

Most employees say they would prefer to work for a company that allows its staff time off to volunteer, new research in the UK has found.   Read article