New Consumer, a UK-based online magazine for "ethical lifestyle, has asked key leaders in the traveling and volunteering industries for their opinion on the ethical issues vs. travelling abroad for overseas volunteering and holidays.  Read article

What's more important: helping a community abroad or going green at home? Today's volunteers are being pulled in two directions at the same time, says Sally Broom  Read article

Accra, Ghana: The out-gone-Minister for Manpower, Youth and Employment, Honourable Abubakar Saddique Boniface, has indicated that, Youth who avail themselves for Voluntary Programmes, contribute tremendously to Nation Development.  Read article

Call me old-fashioned, but community service used to mean something. Charitable work, an important tradition in American culture, once grew out of a family's genuine concern for a cause or from long-standing relationships to houses of worship. And it was based on a shared belief in the value of good deeds. Sadly, it seems we baby boomers took this good and pure idea of service and turned it into its own unique kind of monster.  Read article

Karena Cronin, a UNV volunteer working for CIVICUS, reflects on volunteers' role in strengthening civil society organizations' accountability, as discussed at the recent CIVICUS World Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland.   Read article