As we know, between August 2006 and April 2008, the Beijing Olympic Volunteers Program has recruited 1000,000 volunteers. 70,000 are needed for the summer Games and 30,000 for the Paralympics, according to officials form the Beijing Olympic Volunteers Co-ordination Office Group (BOCOG). Under BOCOG rules, anybody aged 18 and over in April 2008 can be a volunteer. They will work across a wide spectrum of duties, including protocol reception, translation, transport, security, medical service, spectators guiding, communication and so on. BOCOG also set up four volunteer project. They are Towards Olympics Voluntary Service Project, Olympic Games-time Volunteer Project, Paralympics Games-time Project and BOCOG Pre-Games Volunteer Project.

The Games-time volunteers are expected to come mainly form universities in Beijing, but all Beijing residents, members of various ethnic groups form around the country, compatriots form HK, Macao and Taiwan, overseas Chinese and foreign citizens are also welcome to apply.

Certainly, volunteers will have to abide by China’s laws and regulations, meet age and other requirements set by BOCOG, have the ability and qualifications required for the designated posts, be ready to provide unpaid services to the Beijing Olympic Games, and accept BOCOG’s leadership and management.

Finally we can see, it is proud to be a volunteer. It is challenging to be a volunteer. It is also toilsome to be a volunteer.

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