Date Time Online toolkit created to support grassroots volunteering An easy to use online toolkit has been launched by a researcher from the University of Warwick to help anyone motivated to volunteer in the Global South to turn their ambitions into practical action. International volunteering has long been a popular way to see the world and contribute to good causes – indeed, the UN has called for volunteering to be embedded at the heart of the development agenda. However unprepared volunteers and poorly-planned initiatives can do more harm than good – for example, the phenomenon of “voluntourism” at Cambodian pseudo-orphanages – or waste time, energy and goodwill by reinventing the wheel, providing a service that others are already offering or that no-one wants.