50,000 applicants put their names forward for the 2006 FIFA World CupTM Volunteer Programme.
June 25, 2006 (Press Release) --
50,000 applicants put their names forward for the 2006 FIFA World CupTM Volunteer Programme. The ”Ready, willing and able“ team will comprise a total of 15,000 volunteers, who will be seeing to the needs of guests, teams and journalists during the summer of 2006. One in three volunteers – around 5,300 in total – will be working directly looking after fans and guests.
”The volunteers will be the smiling face of the World Cup, welcoming guests from around the world, answering all their questions and basically just being available for them,” explains OC Vice President Dr Theo Zwanziger, who is responsible for the Volunteer Programme. “They will have far more of an impact on the image of the World Cup than the 260 of us working in the OC ever can. Unfortunately we cannot find a job for each candidate, but I think that it’s wonderful that so many well qualified people have applied to perform volunteer tasks. This was of course made possible thanks to the help of ODDSET, who publicised the Volunteer Programme.“
One third of all applicants are women, 64 percent are younger than 30 years, but there are also 2.000 retirees among the field of applicants. The Volunteer Programme already embodies the FIFA World Cup motto “A time to make friends“, since applications were received not just from Germany, but from all around the world. The non-German applications came from a total of 168 countries from all four corners of the world. One fifth of all applicants were from outside the host nation, with Brazil providing the most non-German candidates, via 1,500 applicants.
Source: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
”The volunteers will be the smiling face of the World Cup, welcoming guests from around the world, answering all their questions and basically just being available for them,” explains OC Vice President Dr Theo Zwanziger, who is responsible for the Volunteer Programme. “They will have far more of an impact on the image of the World Cup than the 260 of us working in the OC ever can. Unfortunately we cannot find a job for each candidate, but I think that it’s wonderful that so many well qualified people have applied to perform volunteer tasks. This was of course made possible thanks to the help of ODDSET, who publicised the Volunteer Programme.“
One third of all applicants are women, 64 percent are younger than 30 years, but there are also 2.000 retirees among the field of applicants. The Volunteer Programme already embodies the FIFA World Cup motto “A time to make friends“, since applications were received not just from Germany, but from all around the world. The non-German applications came from a total of 168 countries from all four corners of the world. One fifth of all applicants were from outside the host nation, with Brazil providing the most non-German candidates, via 1,500 applicants.
Source: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
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