Wang Yue is a college student in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China, who has gone around the city painting tiny murals in the ugly holes of the trees there. There are more awesome pictures on the news site, and if you have Google Translate (also available a incredibly helpful app for your iPhone) you won't have to learn what I assume is Mandarin.
Everybody knows about the Peace Corps, but with the long commitment (~2 years) and it's possibly shady ties to the CIA, it may not be what you want. There's lots of alternatives, as detailed in this awesome article over at Off Beat Home and Life.
This is something I've been looking in to every since Brian started talking to us about the way we look at our finances last Saturday.
I stumbled across this article that was covering the countries most likely to be searched for when people looked for international volunteer projects. It then showed the top ten results along with the percentage of people in that country living below poverty level. I noticed USA, number 6 on the list, simply said "n/a" which confused me because not a day goes by without our news media reminding us of unemployment rates and poverty and budget deficits. I scrolled down to find that, for once, we were being measure on the global scale:
Poverty level is defined as "percentage of the population living on less that $1.25 (USD) a day."
Do you know where you fit in to this picture? The people at Global Rich List have an entire formula they've used to help you figure it out.
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