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Nature

These local volunteers are fighting fires in the Amazon rainforest

Spanning eight countries and seven million square kilometres, the Amazon is too big for regular fire brigades to patrol.

Ukraine

Ukrainians spending their days in basements

As they wait for an expected counter-offensive, residents near Ukraine's front lines seek safety, food and companionship in basements.

Scenes

Meet the Ugandan woman who cooked up a feast for homeless children during Ramadan

In partnership with Media City

In partnership with Media City Qatar During Ramadan, some Muslims go the extra mile by performing additional prayers, reading the Quran, or squashing negative tendencies like eating junk and gossiping. For Aisha Ornella Aniotrih cooking for the homeless children completes her Ramadan.

Travel News

Paris 2024: Non-EU citizens invited to apply to be a volunteer

A passion for sports, human relations and timetables are varyingly useful. But you don't need to speak French to sign up.

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Moments

Ukraine needs vehicles: These British volunteers are delivering them

'In many ways life continues as normal, but reminders of the war are ever present. '

Nature

Record-breaking hedgehog lived eight times longer than average

Researchers cried ‘tears of joy’ at discovering the world’s oldest European hedgehog in a conservation study.

Tech News

How Twitter has helped rescue trapped earthquake survivors in Turkey

Earthquake victims took to Twitter to share their locations. A group of online volunteers mapped their addresses to help search and rescue teams.

Ukraine

Young Ukrainians rebuild destroyed homes in the village of Horenka

Euronews' Valérie Gauriat travelled to Ukraine and witnessed locals rebuilding the destroyed village of Horenka, north of Kyiv.

Scenes

Meet the FIFA volunteers ready to welcome all football fans to Qatar

In partnership with Media City

You're giving back to the country, not just the country, but the world because it is an international event where people are coming from different places and different backgrounds,

Football Now

The Volunteers - The face of the 2022 World Cup

In partnership with Media City

Over 20,000 volunteers from over 100 countries will participate at this winter's World Cup in Qatar

Conscious Travel

Trafficking, abuse, neglect: The hidden fallout from ‘voluntourism’

In orphanages around the world, well-intentioned volunteers could be unknowingly funding exploitation.

Residences

7 websites to help you book coworking and co-living spaces abroad

These sites pull together options for living and working together so you can find a community while abroad.

Ukraine

Volunteers near Kyiv step up to the plate to keep people fed

A total of 270,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid has been sent to Ukraine since the Russian invasion. But many Ukrainians are helping each other as volunteers bake bread to feed those in need.

Latvia

Latvian MP Juris Jurašs 'joins legion of foreign fighters in Ukraine'

Juris Jurašs "volunteered to defend the territory of Ukraine", the country's justice minister said.

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Red Cross responds to the most urgent needs in Mariupol

Food and hygiene items were among the aid distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the more than 4,000 people living in shelters in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 2.

United Kingdom

‘We can help’: Brits sign up to defend Ukraine against Russia

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine intensifies, many Brits are volunteering to fight for the nation - despite mixed messages from the UK government

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Activist calls Senegal trash problem 'ecological bomb'

Armed with rakes, sacks and gloves, volunteers cleaned up trash littering a beach on Senegal's usually pristine coastline. Dozens of mainly young people and even children picked up garbage from the sandy beach in Bargny, a city located 35km from the capital Dakar.

Hungary

Volunteers restore one of the world's largest Jewish cemeteries

Nature has taken over much of the 130-year-old site.

Earth News

Myanmar volunteers built a library for orphans from plastic waste

Volunteers made eco-bricks by filling discarded bottles with other plastic waste

Denmark

Denmark offers AstraZeneca and J&J COVID-19 vaccines to volunteers

Denmark has opened an optional scheme to volunteers who would like to receive the unwanted COVID-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.