Volunteers in?Beijing will work on weekends to encourage
local residents to join hands for environmental protection, as the
Smiling Beijing Campaign carries on.
The Beijing Olympic Volunteer Work Coordination Group, along
with Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of
China and Beijing Volunteers Association, will call for more
attention and action for a green environment among the youth,
social workers and citizens. Organizers say the activity will have
no stop at the conclusion of the Games.
As an early-stage try-out and rehearsal of the Games-time city
volunteer work, over 2,000 volunteers at 50 voluntary service
stands offered 2,500-hour information and translation services and
first aid for the public during the Chinese Spring Festival.
Meanwhile, more volunteers provided services at the local community
and counties.
The Beijing Olympic Volunteer Program includes six working
projects and a theme campaign -- "Smiling Beijing". The projects
are: the "towards the Olympics" Voluntary Service Project, the
BOCOG Pre-Games Volunteer Project, the Games-time Volunteer
Project, the City Volunteer Project, the Social Volunteer Project
and the Olympic Volunteer Work Legacy Transformation Project.
During the Olympic and Paralympic Games, over 400,000 city
volunteers will offer their services in the city, in addition to
the 100,000 Games-time volunteers who work directly for the Games.
They will be assigned to 2,000 city voluntary service stands at
major traffic hubs, commercial networks, scenic spots, hospitals,
hotels, and cultural centers. The number of social volunteers in
the communities is expected to exceed 1 million, while that of the
participants in the "Smiling Beijing" campaign will be tenfold as
much.
(BOCOG February 26, 2007)
