A hidden army is at work. These people are never paid and rarely celebrated in public, but the country would grind to a halt without them. From emergency work, to caring for the young and aged, to charitable activity, volunteers are so ubiquitous that we sometimes fail to appreciate how much Australia's wellbeing depends on them.  Read article

With less than a decade left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the question to be addressed is: What role, if any, can VolunTourism play in helping to achieve these objectives by 2015?  Read article

No doubt, you have read headlines like these, too. More and more companies are restructuring jobs to retain and attract retirement age baby boomers. Can the same be said for the non-profit sector? Are volunteer programmes busy creating "boomer-friendly" opportunities?   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

The word ‘volunteer’ is rarely appreciated or even understood by many Yemenis. Observers believe the current environment in Yemen does not encourage volunteerism due to high unemployment, extreme poverty and lack of basic services.  Read article