The overriding feeling I get from volunteering is that it's just great fun. I never feel like I'm working because I'm doing something I really enjoy. Helping others makes you feel good, and I know that I end up benefiting from volunteering just as much as the people I'm supposed to be helping.   Read article

This book, written by a volunteer couple, helps people realize that volunteering for a humanitarian organization, like the Médecins Sans Frontières, can be done at many different stages in life. Wei Cheng, a paediatric surgeon, and his wife Karin Moorhouse, a senior marketing executive for Nestlé Canada, left their comfortable lives to do just that.  Read article

"Myrna Domit, you have been accepted to work as a UNV Public Information Officer. Please report to duty station, at the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, in two weeks."  Read article

This three-part volunteer story, written by Jessica Teicher, speaks of the joys of teaching English to Uzbek kids and knowing Uzbek culture and its people while volunteering. But it was dampened when the government refused to extend the volunteers' visas. They left after only five weeks instead of staying for two years as planned.  Read article

Palo Alto, USA: Palo Alto teenager Wolf Price has never shied away from adventure. He was not quite three when his family travelled to the tropical island of Bora Bora. One afternoon, he turned to his mother and announced that he wanted to walk to a different part of the island, not more than 100 yards away but obscured from her view by trees. And he wanted to go alone.  Read article