Are you a sport fan? Would you have been a volunteer in South Africa during FIFA World Cup but I was too far? Would you like to be part of London 2012 Olympic Games? Then, join Games Makers, volunteer program set up for Olympics that will be held in 2012.
Two kinds of volunteers are needed: generalist and specialist.
Generalist volunteers do not need nay special skill or ability but they need passion and enthusiasm for helping to be a Games Maker. Task assigned can vary from Transport services to Athlete escorting and full training will be provided by organization. Those interested in this volunteering can join till 15 September 2010.
Specialist volunteers need to have some special skills or training such as medical or sport training to play at Olympics as doctors, nurses, anti-doping officers, sport specialist or press operations staff. Organization has been identifying pre-applicants but if you are interested to help your application will be attended ir it comes before 15 September 2010.
All this volunteers will be divided in 30 teams belonging to 10 departments:

- Commercial, Sales and Brand Protection
- Competition Venues and Olympic Villages
- Media, Editorial and Press operations
- Olympics and Para-Olympics games operations
- Olympics and Para-Olympics games services
- Protocol and International Relations
- Sport, Medical and Anti-doping
- Technology
- Torch and Ceremonies.

However, volunteers work will not be developed only in London as some of the competitions will be held in different areas across United Kingdom.
If you live in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales you can contact your regional Council of Voluntary Organizations and they will give you all necessary information to become a useful volunteer.

Help others to have a better life in any way it is always a grateful experience, volunteering is incredible experience not only helps others but help yourself too. Worldwide, thousands of people can tell about how this experience changed their existence, even so many of them devoted their entire life to NGOs projects.

Teaching within education projects in poor areas in your own country, taking part in medical help projects in Asia or building water infrastructures in South America you could find how your work it is really useful for people who really need it and this make a change how you see the world and how to live your life.

Africa was a student from University of Barcelona. She spent 3 months in 2009 in Rúkara (Ruanda) working in a nutritional project based in a health center. She taught to children under 6 years old personal and food hygiene to prevent illnesses. After this time, Africa says “I loved this experience, it has enriched me not only as a professional but as a person too”.

Eavanna Maloney is a qualified Nurse that had been working in the health country for five years. Then she joined a TB/HIV awareness project in Knysna, South Africa. She claims now that she learned much more in five weeks there than in five years before and she describes her volunteer travel as an eye-opening experience.

Amber Hirschy, from Indiana, spent eleven months in Camodia volunteering in a local micro-credits company to help poor people to obtain financial resources. Talking about her service , she says “Living and working in Cambodia challenged me to see the world in new ways and to truly acknowledge the hardship and suffering that many people around the world face every day. Those eleven months were some of the most formative months of my life. I will never be the same…thankfully.”

Volunteers experience themselves how to serve others ways to serve ourselves too.

During last spring a consultation was launched on the European Union sports competence. The results, published on July 28th show the need for EU to support social, educational and health functions of sport activities all related to volunteers work.
Many civil society organisations had been voicing their concerns about how national legislation within European Union have made the recruitment of sport volunteers , specially the younger ones, more and more difficult.
By nominating 2011 as the ‘European Year of Voluntary Activities‘, the EU “hopes to increase the recognition and popularity of volunteering across Europe, and encourage the exchange of best practice between member state”
According to the consultation one of the challenges for European Commision is the availability of sport and physical activity at all levels of education. Some skateholders point that other issues to deal with are “the lack of stable funding for grassroots sport and the predomination of commercial aspects of sport over its societal value”.
However, many aspects of sport-specific topics and issues to improve are not part of the EU’s mandate as defined in Article 165 of the Lisbon Treaty. As an example, European Union financing small local sports clubs can only be dealt with at national or regional level.
Meanwhile an experts’ report identifies health-enhancing physical activity as higher priority in EU sports programme.