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Stand up against poverty
Join people in more than 100 countries to STAND UP Against Poverty. Show your commitment to fight poverty on 15-16 October -- STAND UP and ask your government leaders to keep their promises, namely debt cancellation, better aid and trade rules to help end poverty by 2015.
Initiated by the Millennium Campaign, STAND UP is an initiative designed to coincide with global mobilizations around the International Day of Poverty Eradication and the White Band Day of the Global Call to Action against Poverty. STAND UP relies on your participation -- mobilize individuals or take part in local, group events to symbolize the fight against poverty.
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News
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29 September 2006
'Unique’ heart represents volunteers in Beijing Olympics
Beijing, China: Chang Wu, designer of the Beijing Olympic emblem, needed to discover the "unique" heart to represent volunteers for the upcoming games.
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26 September 2006
Canadian Winter Games gets influx of volunteers, needs thousands more
Ontario, Canada: The 2007 Canada Winter Games signed up its 2,000th volunteer on the weekend but organizers say they need at least twice that number before the event begins in February.
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21 September 2006
Al Gore training volunteers to spread global warming message
Nashville, Tennessee: Former United States Vice-President Al Gore, the star of a documentary derived from his slide show on global warming, is about to begin training 1,000 "Climate Project" volunteers to help spread his environmental message around the globe.
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Viewpoints
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Power of the citizen as an agent of change
by Bill Clinton, Laura Bush, Jean Case
Former US President Bill Clinton and First Lady Laura Bush write about the power of individuals to make great contributions.
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Volunteering and caring can make a difference
by Alba E. Martinez
Even if individual volunteer projects are not very visible, it still matters to that one person, that family, that neighbourhood where the volunteers made a difference, writes Alba Martinez, president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, USA.
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The changing face of volunteering in India
by Patralekha Chatterjee
India is the largest democracy in the world. But without its lively civil society scene, many ills in society would continue unchallenged. Civil society derives its strength from the Gandhian tradition of volunteerism, but today, it expresses itself in many different forms of activism.
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Volunteer Stories
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Fighting fire with fire in South Africa
Young American volunteer Chris Fong volunteered in a game conservation reserve in South Africa feeding animals and helping prevent bush fires.
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Acehnese women rebuild their lives one step at a time
A story written by Mohammad, a young Egyptian graduate student finishing a second Master's degree at the Kennedy School of Harvard University. He volunteered his time as an intern in Aceh in summer 2006, and worked with the Program for Women Headed Households in Indonesia (PEKKA).
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Upcoming Events
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19th IAVE World Volunteer Conference
New Delhi, India
10-14 November 2006
The conference theme is “Volunteering for Peace in Multicultural Societies”. It is organized around six major tracks: Spirituality, Moralities and Attitudes; Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; Environment, Ecology and Development; Education and Governance in Multi-cultural societies; Information Communication Technologies (ICT), Media & Advertising in Multicultural Societies; Civil Society Intervention as Volunteer Action.
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