Volunteering & Volunteer Students

Australians are happy to donate money and time to charity but prefer giving to children or animals more than to the poor or homeless, a survey has found.

Charities collecting for sick people and AIDS victims struggled to get cash, according to the survey on a career network site.

The survey found three-quarters of Australians would love to volunteer to help a charity but only three out of 10 do so.

"People want to help kids but they are three times less inclined to help an AIDS victim," said Campbell Sallabank, whose site, LinkMe, surveyed 2000 job seekers. "It's not as appealing or sexy to give to those."

The survey found nearly half the respondents would give their time to a charity involved with children and four out of 10 would give to animals or the elderly. The level of giving dropped sharply through the poor, disabled and homeless to just a quarter of people who would help the sick and 14 per cent willing to give to AIDS victims.

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