You can also learn more about Global Voices' work and how to become a volunteer.

A traditional question how did you discover Global Voices in French and decide to become a volunteer?

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

Wow, a volunteer, yay!

Immigrants formed the first volunteer fire fighting units (still a volunteer activity in Chile).

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

Swimming in the ocean, the volunteer received vulgar invitations that a white volunteer probably would not receive in the same situation.

A range of actions have been taken since 2001 in many countries, including the creation of presidential agencies for volunteerism, national volunteer agencies, national volunteer centres and networks of regional and local volunteer centres.

Sami is working at this hospital as a volunteer.

Areej Ibrahim, a volunteer with the initiative, added this

A member of volunteer medical aid brigades in Kyiv.

National volunteer centres have been established in Madagascar and the Russian Federation and a volunteer development centre has been set up in Indonesia.

I was hoping you'd volunteer.

Panel discussion on Volunteerism , to celebrate the International Volunteer Day and the citizen volunteer (co sponsored by the United States Mission and the United Nations Volunteer Programme, United Nations Development Programme)

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

They could maybe volunteer that much.

I run a wonderful team of volunteer translators, and do translations myself.

One day, a volunteer came to us to help us with everything.

A TICAD volunteer programme takes increasing numbers of Asian experts to Africa.

The need to work towards a broad based volunteer movement has been highlighted.

Civil society has also been active in establishing volunteer centres in such countries as Cape Verde and Egypt, while a volunteer information and communication technology centre was created in Jordan.

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

Do you get any funding or support or is it a volunteer run site?

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

One Logistics Assistant, United Nations Volunteer (new post).

You do a number of things you're a vice president, you volunteer, you do something else.

In some cases, countries are moving beyond that stage and investing in infrastructure such as networks of volunteer centres and improvements in volunteer management capacity.

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

A major constraint continues to be the limited availability of specific data on volunteer contributions.

Authors volunteer valuable time to write for Global Voices.

They also lost another volunteer in Daraa, southwestern Syria.

Event on the occasion of the International Volunteer Day

The Volunteer Web portal also serves as a global networking hub for International Volunteer Day national focal points, promotes sharing of best practices and provides guidance on the organization of related events and campaigns.

Events on the occasion of the International Volunteer Day (co sponsored by the United States Mission and the United Nations Volunteer Programme, United Nations Development Programme)

Nobuko Ishii, a volunteer now living in Sydney, left Japan with a personal mission to see the world.

As a volunteer for the network, I was in touch with Chen and followed events closely.

Following the attack on Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for a volunteer army from each state.

General Assembly resolution 57 106 called for the development of a global Internet volunteer resource website.

What attracted you to volunteer for Global Voices ?Raafat Rohaiem

The army has been an all volunteer force since 1967.

(ii) Facilitate partnership building around volunteer based activities of civil society, including arrangements for joint planning, implementation and monitoring. This could incorporate employee volunteer activities of the private sector.

Many of these translations came from members of the Global Voices' Lingua Project, a community of volunteer translators.

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

During the 1991 Gulf War he was a volunteer presenter on the BBC Radio 4 News FM service.

Screening of the documentary The Heart of Steel followed by a panel discussion on The citizen as volunteer .