In Africa, Asia, Arab countries, Europe and Latin America the gap between the "haves" and "have nots" is widening. Rural communities suffer from lack of infrastructure and worsening prices for their products. Volunteers, with the help of the local communities, work against this trend. Their activities both short, medium or long term, vary from building schools, clinics, roads and water supplies, to planting trees.

After natural or technological disasters, volunteers from CCIVS member organisations take action to help the victims and bring them back to their normal life, such responses have been made, for example, to earthquakes, cyclones and floods. Training programmes for such action are organised by members of CCIVS.

Moreover, their objectives are not only limited to the realisation of the project but also to mutual understanding and self-development.

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Worldwide, the gap between the " haves " and " have nots " is widening. As a matter of fact, rural communities suffer from a lack of infrastructure and worsening prices for their products. Volunteers, with the local communities work against this trend. Their activities vary from building schools, clinics, road and water supplies to planting trees.

After natural or technological disasters, volunteers take action to help the victims and bring them back to their normal life, such responses have been made for example, to earthquakes, cyclones and floods. Training programmes for such action are organised by the organisations involved. Moreover, their objectives are not only limited to the realisation of the project but also to mutual understanding and self-development.

Other Examples :

Volunteers participated in the wheat harvest and cleaned a plantation (FCN - Nepal).

Volunteers helped to reconstruct the Universities of Istanbul, after the earthquake in 1999 (GSM - Turkey)
A school destroyed during the war in Zimbabwe was renovated (ZWA - Zimbabwe).