Calling all volunteers…
As you may have read here, International Volunteer Day is coming up on December 5. For the last several years, the United Nations has partnered with a number of other organizations to focus on providing potential volunteers with a place for inspiration and information. Another resource for those of us that want to make a difference. How cool is that!
Head to World Volunteer Web to have a look at what’s going on and how you might get involved whether now and/or down the road. The website is packed with information. Those of us focused on opportunities in Latin America can narrow down our search by country. You can also gather information via specific issues and sectors.
Go have a look and spread the word!
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Concerning the comment about Esperanto
Your readers may be interested in http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670
A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
I hope you’ll allow me space to pay tribute to the volunteers who teach the planned international language Esperanmto,in their own time and frequently at their own expense.
Esperanto hasn’t yet gained the recognition it deserves. However, all things considered, it has actually done amazingly well. In just over 120 years, it has managed to grow from a drawing-board project with just one speaker in one country to a complete and living natural language with around 2,000,000 speakers in over 120 countries and a rich literature and cosmopolitan culture, with little or no official backing and even bouts of persecution. It hasn’t taken the world by storm – yet – but it’s slowly but surely moving in that direction, with the Internet giving it a significant boost in recent years. I’m actually quite optimistic about its future, even if we have to wait a while to see it fulfilled.