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Youth & volunteering
They were dubbed as the "we" generation -- selfish and materialistic youngsters focused only on their needs.  But statistics dispute this notion. Worldwide young people volunteer 2.4 billion hours annually, helping in elderly homes, orphanages and community centres, among others.

This photo gallery documents the invaluable contribution provided by young people to promote volunteerism worldwide.

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Youth volunteers fromViet Nam's Youth Union participate in a team building exercise during an environmental training workshop in September 2004. The volunteers are part of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) cultural heritage preservation project in Viet Nam's Ha Long Bay. (September 2004). (Photo by Karin Svadlenak-Gomez/UN Volunteers)Youth volunteers fromViet Nam's Youth Union participate in a team building exercise during an environmental training workshop in September 2004. The volunteers are part of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) cultural heritage preservation project in Viet Nam's Ha Long Bay. (September 2004). (Photo by Karin Svadlenak-Gomez/UN Volunteers)


In this slideshow
Mauricio Otasevic (with cotton bag) of Bolivia's Ministry of Popular Participation on his way to Bolpebra, a village close to the borders of Peru and Brazil, where university graduates engaging in the UNDP/UNV Youth with People Participation project as UN Volunteers help improve living conditions of Bolivian families (February 2004). (Photo by UN Volunteers)
A young volunteer teaches an elderly man how to use a computer. (Photo: Caritas Community Centre. China)
Youth volunteers fromViet Nam's Youth Union participate in a team building exercise during an environmental training workshop in September 2004. The volunteers are part of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) cultural heritage preservation project in Viet Nam's Ha Long Bay. (September 2004). (Photo by Karin Svadlenak-Gomez/UN Volunteers)
Beach cleaning As part of an IYV activity local young volunteers clean up a beach in Azerbaijan. (2001). (Photo: UN Volunteers)
REACHING OUT: A volunteer helps a disabled and elderly person in Ecuador. (Photo: UNV)
Elizabeth Reed, 13, was among volunteers who delivered Christmas in June bags to hospice patientsin Alabama, US. Here, she visits Nola White, who can no longer speak or care for herself because of colon cancer, and White's daughter, Janice Hornbuckle. (DAILY Photo by Dan Henry)
India: Young volunteers loading relief supplied on to truck, Dec 30, 2004. (Owner: Thaths)
Two young volunteers of the NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries Service) plant marsh grass in the United States. (Photo: NOAA)
Young volunteers during last year's International Volunteer Youth Day in Venezuela. (Photo: Carlos Dini/Petroleos de Venezuela)

 

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