Today, United Nations Day and World Development Information Day, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme are pleased to launch a joint publication, Volunteering and Social Activism: Pathways for participation in human development. The paper is based on a study undertaken by the three organisations in 2007-2008.  

The background study finds that both volunteering and social activism are important strategies for fostering people’s participation in social change and human development.

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This brief provides a conceptual framework to link Volunteerism for Development with a series of aging-related issues. Volunteerism can foster elders' empowerment, aiding intergenerational solidarity. The document also looks back over the Sri Lanka Elders' Committees and the work of the HelpAge voluntary home care programme, with recommendations for future policy.  Read article

Volunteer Teacher Thailand carries on the English education work of the Tsunami Volunteer Center and so provides free English lessons to children and adults in the Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand. The organization teaches in offices, orphanages, schools and other communities and furthermore holds lessons for adults and organizes English camps.  Visit site

Botshabelo is based in Midrand, South Africa and provides support for its community by offering home based care in cooperation with the local clinic to provide quality health care, as well as helping babies at the organization's babies home or supporting children through the community based child care programme.  Visit site

Volunteer Aid Nepal (VAID NEPAL) os a non-government, non-profit development organization, focusing its activities on the progress of disadvantaged, marginaliyed and poorly educated people in Nepal. By organizing local resources, VAID NEPAL functions as facilitator for sustainable development.  Visit site