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Olympics fever must be contagious. Record numbers of people have put their hands up to volunteer for next year's Games, and officials predict that numbers will keep climbing. "By Monday, about 556,000 people from home and abroad have applied," Liu Jian, director of the Beijing Olympic Games Volunteer Work Coordination Group Office, said yesterday. Liu encouraged all About 100,000 volunteers are needed for the Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympics Games in 2008, said John Floretta, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Program Manager in China, citing official statistics released earlier this year. Of them, about 95 percent will come from "That left only a handful of vacancies for the international volunteers, or about 1,000," Floretta said. The remarks were made yesterday at the signing ceremony of a three-year project to strengthen volunteering in The US$1.4 million project will provide training to about 10,000 Olympic volunteer leaders and organize volunteer-led environmental awareness campaigns. "Like the Olympics, volunteering is essentially and profoundly optimistic," Ad de Raad, executive coordinator of UNV said yesterday. UNV and the United Nations Development Program in "The world will see the remarkable dedication of volunteers at the Games next summer. Through this project, we are hoping to illustrate how the ingenuity, solidarity and creativity of volunteers can contribute to achieving the nation's development targets." ( |
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