Overseas volunteering
If you are a young unemployed person, you will probably know all about youth benefits. In Australia, Centrelink offers young people support benefits as well as different services to help you find employment, such as helping you to get your resume ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
A Year to Celebrate Volunteers
Helichrysum 'Helping Hand' - an introduction to these plants. The IYV seeks to encourage the promotion of volunteering and the wide range of volunteer opportunities that can provide enduring benefits to each volunteer participant and to their ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
Alan Armstrong
Alan Armstrong started volunteering in a friend's bookshop when he was eight. At 14, he was selling books at Brentano's. As an adult, every so often, he takes to the road in a VW bus named Zora to peddle used books. He is the editor ... [... more]
Random House |
Neely Tucker
In 1997 foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe. After witnessing the devastating consequences of AIDS and economic disaster on the country's children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage where a ... [... more]
Random House |
Philip K. Howard
In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The ... [... more]
Random House |
Suzie Gilbert
Suzie Gilbert lives with her husband and two children in the Hudson Valley of New York. A longtime bird enthusiast, she began volunteering at a raptor rehabilitation center in 1990 and wrote the children's book Hawk Hill before opening her ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
