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VOLUNTEERS

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?" -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve." ­- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some people are fortunate enough to earn their livelihoods in jobs that directly help to create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. But much of the efforts to make life better for our communities and our world are done by volunteers -- people who work for a better world without pay.

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people volunteer - nearly 65 million volunteer in America! American volunteers do the equivalent work of over 9 million fulltime employees!

Recognizing the importance of volunteers, the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) works with a network of over 20,000 organizations to use International Volunteer Day on December 5 as an opportunity to celebrate the important contribution volunteers make, and as a launching point to inspire year-round volunteer involvement.

Many countries have national networks of volunteer organizations. In the US these include Youth Service America; the Points of Light Foundation which helps connect more than 2.5 million volunteers who provide services for 170 million people; and Action Without Borders, which links volunteers to 50,000 organizations in 165 countries.

US Government agencies that promote volunteering include AmeriCorps, which provides money for college tuition for youth volunteers; SeniorCorps which connects those over 55 to volunteer opportunities, and the Peace Corps for helping in other countries.

Volunteers ARE creating a better world, one person and one act of kindness at a time.

Other Links

VOLUNTEER DAY
International Volunteer Day
UN Days & Years Meditation Initiative

VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS
Energize Inc. (training for volunteer leaders)
International Association for Volunteer Effort
NetAid
OneWorld.net
Volunteers of America
Youth Service America

UN
World Volunteer Web
OnlineVolunteering.org
UN Volunteers

US GOVERNMENT
Corporation for National & Community Service
USA Freedom Corps
AmeriCorps
SeniorCorps
Peace Corps

CONNECT TO VOLUNTEER
Action Without Borders
Points of Light Foundation
ServeNet

GET INVOLVED
www.worldvolunteerweb.org

 

Your BetterWorld Clubs chapter can borrow Martin Luther King, Jr. Day films from TheFilmConnection.org a national public film library

 

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