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.