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It is often said that it is the volunteers who “make the games”. Early on, the organising committees of this global sports event launch programmes allowing tens of thousands of people from all backgrounds to apply to work in the most varied of areas.To help the games go successfully. Would you like to become an olympic volunteer?

Volunteers are invited here every year to help maintain and improve ecotourism paths which direct visitors along arranged routes thus helping to protect local ecosystems, reduce the risk of fires and localize garbage within equipped parking lots to make it easier to dispose of it. Apart from daily work on building and improving trails, life under canvas and meals over a campfire, volunteers also have time to enjoy hikes and go on trips to local sites and museums.There is an opportunity to contribute to preserving the Baikal.

A group of Russian volunteers searching a river bank outside St. Petersburg found the remains of five Soviet soldiers who had died while defending the city during World War II. There was little left but bones, but among the remains was one corroded dog tag, with a small piece of paper containing the soldier's identification information still rolled up inside.

Mentoring can offer volunteers the opportunity to provide support and friendship to a person who may be going through a difficult period or is feeling lonely and has no family. Potential activities can include meeting with elderly people, doing the shopping for them or visiting them to have a chat, helping about the house.

If you watch the news during and after a natural disaster hits, you’ll see everyday citizens doing their part to physically be there for their neighbors. If you live in an area affected by a natural disaster and are safe, simply extending a helping hand to your neighbor can make a huge difference. Huffman says that organizations may also have a “need for volunteers to answer phones, sort through donated items, help remove debris from affected sites, talk to and answer questions with disaster survivors, enter disaster-related data, or deliver goods like food and water to homes.