Paralympic volunteers add splendor to the Games

Paralympic volunteers add splendor to the Games

A volunteer helps members of the Mexican delegation at the Paralympic Village in Beijing Sept. 4, 2008. Some 44,000 volunteers are serving for the ongoing Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games and 90 percent of them have worked for the Olympic Games last month. (Xinhua Photo)


Volunteers work during a match of the Beijing Paralympic Athletics event at the National Stadium Sept. 10, 2008.


Volunteers help Czech athlete Eva Kacanu before a match of the Beijing Paralympic Athletics event at the National Stadium Sept. 8, 2008


Volunteers are seen on standby during a match of the Beijing Paralympic Athletics event at the National Stadium Sept. 10, 2008. Some 44,000 volunteers are serving for the ongoing Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games and 90 percent of them have worked for the Olympic Games last month


Volunteers help American athlete Marlon Shirley during a match of the Beijing Paralympic Athletics event at the National Stadium Sept. 9, 2008.


A volunteer guides athletes at the National Stadium Sept. 10, 2008


Volunteers are seen on standby during a match of the Beijing Paralympic Athletics event at the National Stadium Sept. 11, 2008.


Zhao Dan (L), a Peking University student from China's quake-hit Sichuan Province, helps a Japanese photographer at the National Stadium Sept. 11, 2008


Volunteers work at the National Stadium in Beijing Sept. 10, 2008.


A volunteer checks a keyboard provided for people with visual impairments at the Paralympic Village in Beijing Sept. 5, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)