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!
Beautiful Asian Games volunteers
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- 1
Asian Games volunteers
5:00, 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 in 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.
China volunteers serve Doha Asian Games.
In addition, a large number of volunteers are active in athletes' villages and Asian Games venues. Among them, there are staff from national Olympic committees, such as Esulu Annabekoga and Yue of Kazakhstan Olympic Committee.