Volunteering at the Beijing Olympics
The Australia-China Council has received the following information about volunteering for the Beijing Olympics from the Government of the People’s Republic of China:
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) and the Beijing Olympic Games Volunteer Work Coordination Group held a press conference on 28 March 2007 to launch the recruitment of volunteers from overseas.
BOCOG and the Beijing Olympic Games Volunteer Work Coordination Group has entrusted the Beijing Olympic Games Foreign Volunteers Recruitment Centre with recruiting overseas volunteers. You can contact the Centre on +86-10-65192790 (Tel.) or +86-1-65192794 (Fax).
The application website is available online. Applications are open until March 2008. For further information, you can log onto the application website or contact BOCOG on the volunteer consultancy hotline: +86-10-12308 (both in Chinese and English).
