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

At Healing Horses Therapeutic Riding Center volunteers are needed to provide appropriate individualized services, support, therapy and information to help children with autism spectrum disorders grow, learn and flourish.  Visit site

China-based organization that trains and deploys development instructors in China and elsewhere. Chinese lessons provided.  Visit site

The mission or CARE Mumbai is to bring people, their ideas and knowledge together and provide a platform for helping the underprivileged section of  society.And tackle problems like communalism, deprivation, discrimination and exploitation.  Visit site