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 Internet spurs upswing in volunteerismYouth volunteerism is surging as high school and college students use the net to mobilize quickly and nationally. More than 22,000 non-profit groups have signed up to rally protagonist on the teen-and-young-adult site MySpace since it began in 2004, says Jeff Berman, the site's executive vice president for selling. He says more young people are engaged in activism online and their creativeness in using the net to do good works is "off the charts." grouping also have sprung up on Facebook, another social- networking site used by 1000000 of pupil, to urge youth to fight global warming, help Hurricane Katrina victims, seek world peace or protestation events such as complaint brought against six black teens for whipping a white schoolmate in Jena, La. "Activism is at a very high level among college students, likely more than in the last 10 to 20 years," says Henry M. Robert Rhoads, who Edward Teach a class on the history of pupil activism at the University of Golden State, Los Angeles. "There's a greater political consciousness among pupil," he says. "The net has played a role in that." A growth number of college freshmen military volunteer in their last year of high school, says John Pryor of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. He found in a study that 83.3% did so last year, up from 66% in 1989. Some high schools make community service a graduation requirement, but 70% of those who volunteered were not required to do so. More Volunteer Abroad News |