Around The Web On Volunteering: March 10

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• The American Cancer Society needs volunteers to help with its Daffodil Days during the month of March.
• One Brooklyn
  writer up and leaves for Senegal to volunteer with the Senegalese Association for Research, Study and Aid for Development (ASREAD).
• The Chicago Tribune follows the lead of the Volunteer Logue and reviews the new Volunteer Cheap Tickets site.*
• Some sad volunteer news: a 67-year-old volunteer from Spain was killed while working with AIDS affected people in Peru.
• The volunteer turnout for the 2008 Olympics has been astounding in Shanghai…so astounding that only one out of ten interested volunteers will actually be able to participate.
• If you’re a health care professional in Colorado, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment would like you to register as a volunteer to be called in case of a large-scale public health emergency.
• A woman in Utah has become an “accidental ambassador” for Village of Hope in Ethiopia - she participated as a non-medical volunteer on an expedition in 2005 and will return this summer.
• One civil engineering grad goes to Mali as a Peace Corps Volunteer; he’s involved in water resource management, which encompasses water sanitation, education and development.
• If you happen to live in Brownsville, Texas, here’s a list of organizations that need your help; if you live in Arizona, use VolunteersOAZ.com.
• And a volunteer village in Florida will be up and running by April to house volunteers assisting those affected by the February tornadoes in Florida.

*Yes, this is a joke.

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