Volunteer

A volunteer is a person who performs or offers to perform a service out of her own free will, often without payment. The year 2001 was the International Year of the Volunteer.

Some thoughts on what could be here:

• Perhaps we could explore why we volunteer?
• A history of volunteering, particularly of the major volunteer organisations.
• A list of volunteer organisations.
  • Service club
  • community emergency response team
• A list of online volunteer projects
  • Debian
  • Wikipedia
  • WorldForge

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See also

• Hospital volunteer.
• Candystriper.
• Volunteer (botany).
• Non-government organisation