Helping Developing Countries (and yourself) from Your Own Home

Online Volunteering and its very real impact on developing countries… and on volunteers themselves
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The UN Volunteers program (www.unvolunteers.org) featured
two new articles about online volunteering in international
settings in the December 2003 issue of UNV News (en
français / en español tambien).

Online Volunteering specialist Jayne Cravens reviews what
online volunteering is and the very real impact it is having on
communities in the developing world, as well as among online
volunteers themselves.

Volunteers donate time from home,
for developing countries
http://www.unvolunteers.org/infobase/unv_news/2003/96/03_1
2_03on-line.htm

Volunteering online
A digital opportunity to participate
http://www.unvolunteers.org/infobase/unv_news/2003/96/03_1
2_03QandA.htm

In her last interview, the late UNV Executive Coordinator Sharon
Capeling-Alakija (1944 ˆ 2003), was joined by Online
Volunteering specialist Jayne Cravens to reflect on three years of
the programme’s activities and discuss its future