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American volunteers worth billions to economy: Study
Washington D.C., USA: A new study released by the Corporation for National and Community Service, America’s 65.4 million volunteers donate the economic equivalent of almost $150 billion dollars in services each year.   more »

Corporate employee volunteering might be booming — more corporations and charities are trying to work together. Trouble is, the two sides don't seem to understand each other and, in some cases, they just don't get on. A special report has found frustrations and recriminations spilling over from both sectors. Read the article   more »

Indian Red Cross volunteers responded immediately to the explosions that rocked Mumbai's railway during Tuesday's rush hour, killing at least 200. At the Indian government's request in Maharastra, local Red Cross volunteers and staff were immediately mobilized to provide first aid to the injured and help take care of incoming patients at the Sion hospital in central Mumbai.   more »

Two hundred students from over 20 universities and colleges in Beijing have become youth volunteers to advocate the concept of "a girl is as good as a boy", particularly among rural areas.At Monday's initiation ceremony of the volunteer programme, Ma Ming, executive chairman of the Beijing student federation, said that the volunteers will call for the respect and protection of women's legal rights when they return to their hometowns during the summer holiday.   more »

Through a volunteer development programme called the West Plan, young teachers and doctors from China’s wealthier eastern provinces are heading into the country’s less developed western provinces in droves to help communities there. Since its start in 2003, the programme has sent over 40,000 recent graduates into communities throughout China’s West.

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