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

Levels of awareness are growing in many countries in all regions, which is expected to translate into increased numbers of people participating in voluntary activity.

E. Bringing volunteerism into the mainstream

People often define volunteering as the privileged helping the needy, but volunteering can also be used to help oneself.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has developed an internal volunteering policy and established a volunteering focal point within its headquarters.

56 38. Recommendations on support for volunteering

YUVA (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action)

National legislation on volunteering was identified during the International Year of Volunteers as an important determinant of a flourishing volunteer movement.

The legislative environment is becoming increasingly supportive of volunteering and the contribution that volunteering makes to individuals and societies is increasingly recognized.

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Women's Union of Russia (1999 2002)

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action

References in national Human Development Reports to volunteerism are an indicator of the extent to which volunteerism is entering the mainstream of development thinking.

There's a common belief that working for free doesn't have any value.

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It's called momentum.

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

Other examples abound of providing recognition.

A year of voluntary ecological work was initiated to educate youth on environmental issues.

It causes people who engage in that activity to lose morale and it causes the activity itself to lose morality.

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