Jakarta, Malaysia: Dr. Jeyathesan has been volunteering for the Malaysian Red Crescent Society since he was a kid. Now a medical doctor, he was amongst victims and survivors, volunteering to provide medical relief, when tsunamis and earthquake struck Asia recently.  As a volunteer doctor in disaster areas, he never thought that he's saving someone else's life, he's just making himself more useful.  Read article

Tampat, Malaysia: Roslan Ismail has made a mission of his volunteer work, spreading the word about social services available to the disabled in his region of Malaysia. Ismail’s work is all the more impressive given the fact that he is disabled himself, having lost the use of his legs to polio.  Read article

Tyre, Lebanon: A volunteer in southern Lebanon tries to keep a promise to a little girl at increasing risk to his life. The 25-year old from the port city of Tyre promised Rayan Finjan that he would bring home the bodies of her father, mother and 15-year-old brother, killed when an Israeli missile hit the minivan they were travelling in.  Read article

Victoria, Australia: Joy Little began her formal volunteering at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. Five decades later, she is still going strong as a manager of 285 community volunteers.  Read article

Anbar, Iraq: Hosts of college students from the west Anbar are spending their summer holidays doing volunteer work in hospitals, clinics and camps for people displaced by conflict amongs religious groups.  Read article