Xiao Dong, 31, who heads up the Chaoyang Chinese AIDS Volunteer Group, has been working for more than two years to improve AIDS education in China's capital. The organization's work is targeted at groups that are deemed a high risk to contract the deadly virus, such as intravenous drug users, sex workers and the city's gay population.  Read article

Franco Di Giovanni is HIV positive. He was out of work and out of touch with the world - but then volunteering helped rejuvenate his life.   Read article

James Kalako is chairperson of a youth club on HIV/Aids in Mulanje, Malawi. He is a volunteer trainer in carpentry. The fact that he does not get any payment for what he does is not a problem for him: "My problem is to help fellow young people live a positive life and look into the future with hope.”  Read article

Beirut, Lebanon: Seventeen-year-old Shawky Amineddine first balked at the idea of volunteering. "I thought it was a waste of time, " he said. But after more than 280 hours of volunteering, he realized it opened a new world for him. Together with some friends, he formed "Volunteering with No Constraints" -- where young Lebanese under age 20, could volunteer regardless of their religious and political affiliations.   Read article

Lagos, Nigeria: Anyone trying to rig or tamper presidential elections in Nigeria could be caught out by a team of volunteers armed with mobile phones. Election volunteers use SMS to feedback their observations to a central computer hub, which was then passed on to other monitoring groups including the EU.  Read article