Games volunteer numbers keep rising

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    Olympics fever must be contagious.
    Record numbers of people have put their hands up to volunteer for next
year's Games, and officials predict that numbers will keep climbing.
    "By Monday, about 556,000 people from home and abroad have applied," Liu
Jian, director of the Beijing Olympic Games Volunteer Work Coordination Group
Office, said yesterday.
    Liu encouraged all Beijing citizens to volunteer for the Games as it would
be an enriching experience.
    About 100,000 volunteers are needed for the Beijing Olympic Games and
Paralympics Games in 2008, said John Floretta, United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
Programme Manager in China, citing official statistics released earlier this
year.
    Of them, about 95 percent will come from Beijing, while the rest will be
drawn from other parts of China and the world, he said.
    "That left only a handful of vacancies for the international volunteers, or
about 1,000," Floretta said.
    The remarks were made yesterday at the signing ceremony of a three-year
project to strengthen volunteering in China through the Beijing 2008 Olympic
Games.
    The $1.4 million project will provide training to about 10,000 Olympic
volunteer leaders and organize volunteer-led environmental awareness
campaigns.
    "Like the Olympics, volunteering is essentially and profoundly optimistic,"
Ad de Raad, executive coordinator of UNV said yesterday. UNV and the United
Nations Development Programme in China jointly funded and organized the
project.
    "The world will see the remarkable dedication of volunteers at the Games
next summer. Through this project, we are hoping to illustrate how the
ingenuity, solidarity and creativity of volunteers can contribute to achieving
the nation's development targets."
   
   
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