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Thursday Jan 04, 2007
Volunteers writing up a storm
Many voluntary organisations and community groups thrive on material written and led by volunteers. We at YouthNet benefit tremendously from a team of volunteer journalists and editorial assistants who come up with stories, conduct research, and write sparkling and informed articles for our websites. These volunteers are savvy, switched on and ready to rock the world. Just to show them off, I thought I'd share a few nuggets.
Naomi, a diarist on TheSite.org, gets a taste of hunger during Ramadan, while the rest of Yemeni life turns upside-down and potentially dangerous at times.
York students may have abilities comparable to the A-Team, but they're also a germ-ridden, horny lot, according to Lily, our former (twice!) Editorial Assistant.
Lauren, a freelance journalist who volunteers with our Editorial team on a regular basis, wonders whether celebrities are adopting overseas children for all the wrong reasons.
MySpace has become an unstoppable craze, according to another, Michele. (Mind you, TheSite has its own MySpace page, if you'd like to become our friend!)
And, the volunteers at Mental Health Matters get incredible support from the organisation, writes Olivia for our volunteering website do-it.org.uk, for the difficult work that they do.
Think you can do so well? We're always looking for more. ;)
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