Globally, volunteerism contributes to many areas of human development and peace-building. Volunteerism can be the ideal link between global and local: volunteers may have experience of doing things in different ways, with different approaches, and commit themselves to transferring this information in a way that is beneficial to the people whom they serve. Visit site

Time magazine reports on Teach India, a volunteer programme run by the Times of India, one of India's leading English-language dailies, in collaboration with UNV. 

"Such a visionary and large-scale programme has only been possible because we've been able to get the media, civil society and corporate sector together," says Adeline Aubry, a former UNV Programme Officer under whom the initiative was launched. India has had a long tradition of volunteerism, she says, "but Teach India gives them a giant common platform for a common cause."

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