Wow, a volunteer, yay!

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A member of volunteer medical aid brigades in Kyiv.

I'm in the operating room. We have Bob here, who is a volunteer donor.

If you are interested in contributing as a volunteer researcher you can register for a user account.

A volunteer in his 40s talks to a younger man in his 20s.

The troops were divided into three groups and were made up of 1000 volunteers.

Peace Corps volunteer Duncan, writing about racism in Morocco, touches on a similar theme.

He was therefore left free to organize a small army of about 10,000 volunteers.

In this new television version, a questioner asks a series of questions to a candidate locked in a box.

Everyone involved in the project is a volunteer, and they rely on small fundraising events to cover their costs.

He is a Red Crescent volunteer who was arrested in Syria and is reportedly being subjected to 'monstrous torture.'

This is a group whose million strong army of volunteers have been working to eradicate polio for over 20 years.

A volunteer defender of protest grounds in Kyiv who initiated the creation of human chain between the protesters and the police to prevent provocations and violence.

Abdoulaye Bah, a volunteer author and translator for Global Voices, highlighted their work in Liberia (via Jina Moore)

A volunteer needs either to have completed the compulsory military service (which ended in 2004) or to attend 8 week training.

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We have welcomed more than 70 volunteer translators from at least 21 countries to the Global Voices community in the past year and a half.

Editor's note This story was updated on August 18 to correct the number of White Helmet volunteers from 130 to 3000.

In February 2009 I joined GV as a volunteer translator from English to Arabic, afterwards I became author and Arabic Lingua editor.

And with the help of 100 volunteers, over a week, created this fairly floral typography that spelled, Obsessions make my life worse and my work better.

In 2008, Ashraf Al Shafaki, a blogger who volunteered with Resala, wrote a blog post about their annual initiative to collect used clothes for charity and fundraising During the month of Ramadan last year (2007), Resala aimed at collecting 100 thousand pieces of used clothes from people in Egypt through its 7 branches in Cairo and 2 branches in Alexandria.

Up to 60,000 Italian volunteers were now operating in Spain, and the removal of foreign nationals was discussed by the Non Intervention Committee.

(c) Establishment of one United Nations Volunteer position of Interpreter Translator in the Office of the Force Commander (A 59 748, para. 14)

We now have more than 100 volunteer authors, 15 different language versions of Global Voices, and get mentioned in the mainstream media nearly once a week.

More than 300 Volunteers took part in this year's International Coastal Cleanup event in Bangladesh reports Fahim Alam Khan at Kewkradong Bangladesh blog.

In 2004, there were 7,300 United Nations volunteers representing 163 nationalities carrying out 7,772 assignments in 139 countries.

Credited with saving over 56,000 lives and comprising about 3000 volunteers, the group of rescue workers may now receive the world's most recognizable 'peace prize' for their work.

Up to 1,000 people a day came to the rescue center, and eventually, over the course of this rescue, more than 12 and a half thousand volunteers came from all over the world to Cape Town to help save these birds.

It was rather dull. But I came back to Africa at the age of 17, as a volunteer teacher to Lesotho, which is a tiny country, surrounded at that time by apartheid South Africa.

Up until July 2012, our dedicated team of about 80 volunteers produced over 80 posts in English, many them translated in various languages.

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Today, we're a vibrant global community of more than 150 active volunteer authors and translators and more than 20 freelance part time regional and language editors, and a leading participatory media news room for voices from the developing world.

More than 90,000 Czech and Slovak volunteers formed the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia, France and Italy, where they fought against the Central Powers and later with White Russian forces against Bolshevik troops.

Over 10,000 volunteers work with the Correctional Service of Canada helping offenders to reintegrate by bridging the gap between the institution and communities.

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Simons recruited 103 personnel from interviews of 500 volunteers, most Special Forces personnel of the 6th and 7th Special Forces Groups at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

In addition, a volunteer Coordinator Focal Point and related infrastructure for the Panel of Counsel would be established in each duty station to allow them to function in situ and to facilitate outreach activities of the New York Coordinator.

Despite having limited funding, Al Caravan gathered a team of around 100 volunteers in and out of Syria combined with activists from the educational field to offer their experience and work to Syrian children and use social media to communicate with the outside world.

In particular, and given the high vacancy rate in MONUC and the fact that only three months remained before the start of the next budget cycle, more convincing reasons should be given for the request for 1.87 million for 115 United Nations Volunteers.

In Saudi Arabia, Earth Hour was observed for the first time this year. In Jeddah, volunteer photographers documented Earth Hour and have uploaded lots of photos of those who participated into a blog, Earth Hour Jeddah.

It's a labor of love produced by 400 people around the world who see citizen media in all its forms videos, photographs, podcasts, Twitter posts, Facebook updates, blogs as a powerful tool to build connections across barriers of language, culture and nation.

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On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman, a 'Neighborhood Watch Volunteer' in Sanford, Florida, USA, shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin while the latter was coming out of a store with freshly purchased candy.

Today we ve just learned that Raed Al Tawil is being subjected to monstrous torture and that he is being held in Al Khatib state security branch in Damascus and that he shall be sent to Air Force Intelligence soon, blogs Syrian Razan Ghazzawi about Al Tawil, a Red Crescent volunteer arrested in Syria.