Brief introduction of Asian Games volunteers

The organizing committee began to recruit volunteers three years ago. Originally planned to recruit 16000 volunteers. As a result, more than 30,000 people signed up enthusiastically, including about 25,000 people from 25 countries who submitted their applications through the Internet. Finally, the organizing committee interviewed 19000 people and actually recruited more than 23700 people. It is said that the organizing Committee interviewed more than 600 people every week at the speed of 100 meters sprint in the final stage!

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The organizing committee clearly stated in the recruitment plan that all volunteers participating in the Asian Games service will receive: a volunteer service commemorative certificate; Professional training for discount cards in different service areas; A set of conference uniforms; Free snacks/drinks during work; International exchange experience; Permanent memory of participating in Asian sports events; Opportunities to visit the Asian Games Village; Tickets for rehearsal of the opening ceremony; After the closing of the Asian Games, the names of all volunteers were engraved on the volunteer monument in Doha Sports City.

Under the call of the organizing committee, all volunteers are enthusiastic to contribute to the Asian Games. As Arula Naik, an Indian volunteer, said on behalf of all volunteers at the opening ceremony of the Asian Games Village, "This is a rare life experience. Everyone works together and meets people from different countries and regions ... This kind of work is exciting. "

According to the mid-term statistics of the Asian Games organized by the Organizing Committee, 5,648 volunteers came from Qatar, and the rest came from Egypt (2,865), India (5,537), Jordan (1.008), Nepal (789), Pakistan (1.085) and Pakistan. With the advancement of the Asian Games, the number of volunteers is constantly changing.

In the news service department of the main news center where journalists work, there are a group of volunteers from different countries and regions who work in three shifts every day (07:00- 15:00, 15:00-23:00, 23:00-07:00). Among them, Ali Nadeem from Sudan is a civil architect. He starts work at 6 o'clock every morning and volunteers for 7 hours after work. Hana Frangi, a Palestinian mother of five. The youngest daughter is only 4 years old this year, and the oldest is 16 years old. In the morning, she is busy sending her children to school and doing housework, and goes to work from 3 pm to 1 1. For her, volunteering has greatly changed her daily life. Afse Shahin Youssef from Pakistan is an experienced old volunteer. He participated in the Third West Asian Games held in Doha from June 5 to February 2005. He very much hopes to be a "top-level" volunteer for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and has begun to pay attention to when BOCOG will start recruiting international volunteers through the Internet.

There are also eight female volunteers from the Philippines in the news work area of the main news center, all of whom are housewives. They also work seven hours a day according to the arrangement of the organizing Committee, mainly taking care of 40 computers that provide instant information of the conference in the work area and helping to solve problems at any time. However, they said that the work here is not tiring, because these computers containing the conference information database seem to know that they have great responsibilities and have been running well since they opened.

In addition, a large number of volunteers are active in athletes' villages and Asian Games venues. Some of them are staff members of the National Olympic Committee, such as Esulu Anabekoya of the Kazakh Olympic Committee, Noko Tann Nuyan, assistant of the Vietnamese Olympic Committee, and Abad Saheb, member of the Volunteer Committee of the United Arab Emirates Olympic Committee. Anna Bekkoja came to Doha as a volunteer with a clear purpose-to accumulate experience for hosting the Asian Winter Games in 20 1 1 Kazakhstan. She thinks that the preparations for the Doha Asian Games (Doha Asian Games news, Doha Asian Games speech) are well done. Anna Becca usually likes to play tennis (tennis news, let's say tennis) and works as a part-time English teacher in her spare time. At present, she is a senior in the Department of International Relations and Law. Noko Tarn Nuyeen came to Doha for volunteer training three times. She said that she especially likes the Asian Games Village and is very happy to participate in such a major sports event in person. She likes sports. I am the national swimming champion in Vietnam. Abad Saheb is a physical education teacher in Dubai. He said, "The work of serving the society attracts me. I am here to make every effort to make the athletes feel comfortable, just like at home. "

Jodanian Suliman Tabit, a 33-year-old Qatari, is a data entry clerk. Through this experience of serving the Asian Games, he hopes to have the opportunity to become a volunteer. "Just for this," he said, "I hope Qatar can hold more large-scale events in the future!" Ibrahim Radwan, a compatriot of Tabit, is a chemical engineer of Qatar Petroleum Company and a volunteer of the Asian Games Village Accommodation and Reception Center. He said that he took part in this competition because he wanted to "get close to the Asian Games from the inside, work in different environments and make new friends."

Luke Raj Devcota is a bank employee from Nepal and a volunteer of the Asian Games Village newspaper Quicksand. He proudly said, "I am very happy to get in touch with athletes from all over the world and interview them with my works." His friend Nair Baha Balami, who is also a Nepalese, is in charge of seeing him off in the logistics department of the Asian Games Village. The reason why this volleyball fan and football fan like this job is simple: "You can see all the players."

Sid Ali is a Pakistani and an avid karate enthusiast. Before the opening of the Asian Games, he was assigned to work in the Gift Package Distribution Center of the Asian Games Village. When the reporter asked him which sport he liked best, he replied without hesitation: karate. He said that he has three daughters, all of whom are masters of black belts in karate, and he himself has only reached the level of tea belts. In his words, "We are a standard karate family!" Although he worked in the Asian Games Village for a short time, he was very excited when he talked about the opportunity to make friends with people from different places.

Based on the experience of large-scale international sports events in previous years, especially comprehensive sports events, carefully organizing and managing volunteers has become the knowledge of organizers of previous events. Now, 65438+February 5th every year is designated as "International Volunteer Day", which happens to be the 5th day of the opening of the Doha Asian Games. People all over the world who are interested in volunteering will serve the international sports cause through their own festivals, carry forward the Olympic spirit, and serve world peace, friendship and development with greater enthusiasm.

May the spirit of voluntary service be passed down from generation to generation!