Volunteers:

Volunteers have an enormous impact on the health and well-being of communities worldwide. Think of all the various ways that volunteers make a difference in or day-to-day life:

Volunteers deliver critical services—from serving as volunteer fire fighters or participating in search and rescue, to delivering meals to homebound seniors or homeless shelters, school nutrition programs to manning the phone lines at domestic violence and sexual assault centers, to connecting abused widows to legal aids and visiting those who had been thrown out of their marital homes after the death of a husband and comforting them.

Volunteers help to keep our neighborhoods, streets, parks, rivers, green spaces, and water clean and safe for everyone.

Volunteers teach, mentor, coach, and support and engage young people in activities that help keep them off the streets and away from gang activities and violence.

Volunteers educate the public on health maintenance, sickness prevention and self preservation; doctors and nurses donate time and medical knowledge to OSV-Togo’s screening and disease prevention programs, and consultation clinics.

Volunteers build houses and schools, dig wells, and repair infrastructure.