Taking place between the Summer and Winter Games--Sydney 2000 and Salt Lake City 2002--the International Year of Volunteers is an Olympics of a third kind: Just as it is true of the Olympic Movement, the United Nations international year aims to encourage "a way of life based on the joy found in effort, on the powerful and educational value of good example and respect for fundamental universal principles." Read

Hong Kong/Beijing: Address by Sharon Capeling-Alakija, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers on the occasion of the official launch of the Hong Kong, China Committee on UNV. Read