Angels of the night: exploring street-aid volunteer tourists and faith-based volunteer tourism

What motivates people to volunteer? the case of volunteer AIDS caregivers in faith-based organizations in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Volunteers are increasingly being relied upon to provide home-based care for people living with AIDS in South Africa and this presents several unique challenges specific to the HIV/AIDS context in Africa. Yet it is not clear what motivates people to volunteer as home-based caregivers. Drawing on the functional theory on volunteer motivations, this study uses data from qualitative interviews wit...

Faith in action: building capacity for interfaith volunteer caregiving.

Ecotourism, conservation biology, and volunteer tourism: A mutually beneficial triumvirate

Funding for basic conservation research is chronically lacking. The potential for ecotourism to fund conservation research exists, but has been little explored. One branch of ecotourism with funding potential is volunteer tourism, where conservation scientists and recruiting agencies develop research projects and volunteers provide funding and labor. We examine the costs and benefits of a three...

Java-based Volunteer Grid Architecture

Grid Architecture coordinates the sharing of resources and allows for collaboration of often heterogeneous equipment that is geographically distributed. While research grids provide needed services, volunteer-based grids promise greater processing power provided that the overhead, availability, and heterogeneity of the resources are manageable. JAVA-based applets provide quick installation acro...

Medical-surgical nurses volunteer to aid tsunami victims.

Note: In this column, the author describes some of the experiences of a medicalsurgical nurse volunteer aboard the United States Navy Ship (USNS) Mercy. Mr. Yates served on the second Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) rotation aboard the Mercy from February 26 to March 20, 2005. The earthquake and resulting tsunami of December 26, 2004, in the Indian Ocean affected 12 co...