And we make it incredibly easy to volunteer.

People become so engaged that they have volunteers, just like political volunteers anyway, who fan out over the countryside, campaigning for their candidate.

5. Encourages all people to become more engaged in voluntary activities

3. Invites States to consider all means available for more people to become involved in voluntary action and to be drawn from a broader cross section of society, especially from groups, including young people, older people and people with disabilities, in view of the benefits accruing to volunteers through volunteer action

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He volunteered, the paratroopers.

Community participation, equal rights and support groups and volunteerism

In 2002, over 390,000 volunteers in 100 countries took part in these campaigns.

The world's young people are using their leisure time to become involved in volunteer work.

K. Community participation, equal rights and support groups and volunteerism

Now, do I have any volunteers?

I think we had about 170 tutors that worked on this book with them and so this worked out incredibly well.

Are you volunteering at a VA?

Involvement ranges from employer supported volunteer schemes and funding for volunteer projects, to building partnerships around volunteer focused government and civil society initiatives.

International Service for Human Rights

fUnited Nations Volunteers.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has carried out regional monitoring to gauge the extent to which there has been voluntary participation of stakeholders.

Bearing in mind that volunteering is one of the important ways in which people participate in societal development,

(c) Involving volunteers in their programmes, interlinking with national initiatives

(i) Consider all means available for more people to become involved in voluntary activities and to be drawn from a broader cross section of society, including youth, older persons and people with disabilities and persons belonging to minorities, targeting opportunities for voluntary activities to facilitate the active participation of those groups which have little or no access to the benefits of engaging in volunteering

John is one of about a dozen very heroic, courageous people who volunteered for the study.

Both volunteers and the most vulnerable people are involved as partners in planning, implementing and evaluating prevention, emergency and health activities.

Wow, a volunteer, yay!

The creation of the Mesa de Voluntariado in Ecuador and the Feria del Voluntariado in Guatemala are examples of efforts by volunteer involving organizations to enhance mutual assistance at the country level.

(ii) Recognize the continuing role of the United Nations Volunteers as the volunteer arm of the United Nations system, placing volunteers in development and humanitarian programmes and promoting online volunteering. Build on the acquired experience of the United Nations Volunteers in enhancing the recognition, facilitation, networking and promotion of volunteering, deriving from its role as focal point for the International Year of Volunteers.

16. Encouraging youth voluntarism as an important form of youth participation

75 people volunteered, took personality tests.

And everything is managed by the volunteers.

Other organizations send volunteers.

Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale

Those who wish may serve from the age of 18.

Here we have a likely subject.

We've got a volunteer.

The four objectives of the Year were the enhancement of volunteerism in all its forms in terms of recognition, promotion, facilitation and networking, with a view to generating increased awareness of the achievements and further potential of volunteer activity encouraging more people to volunteer and channelling resources to augment the effectiveness of participation through volunteerism by all segments of the population.

Just months ago, a clinical trial in London that saw the first use of a drug in humans resulted in six healthy subjects becoming violently ill. Two of the volunteers nearly died.

I'll need one volunteer, man or woman. How about you?

These volunteers will declare at the time of recruitment whether they accept to take part in armed conflicts .

The report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction,6 held in Kobe, Japan, in 2005, recognizes the importance of involving volunteers in strategies for disaster reduction and proposes a number of recommendations, such as promoting the strategic management of volunteer resources, involving volunteers in community based training initiatives and establishing or strengthening national, regional and international volunteer corps.

This is one of the reasons why we are expanding our volunteer networks, as they are part of the local communities.

The babies are taken care of by volunteers.

Here is a brave volunteer!

There is growing evidence of steady improvements in access to information about opportunities to volunteer, while online volunteering and employee volunteering in the private sector are beginning to demonstrate their potential for attracting far larger numbers of people into volunteer activities.

7. It is important to ensure that opportunities for volunteering in all sectors are open both to women and men, given their different levels of participation in different areas, and recognizing the potential positive effect of volunteering on the empowerment of women.

American Psychological Association (2000 2003)