Every year thousands of volunteers join the “Africa Mercy” hospital ship in Africa. Mercy Ships have served in 150 ports in developing nations around the world and act as mobile hospitals that provide free surgery to world’s poorest people.

In 1990, Mama’s Kitchen in San Diego started delivering free meals to aids patients and has since expanded to include other critical diseases like cancer and in the past two decades it adds up to almost five million meals.

The “Serve America Act” calls for increased volunteer work among all Americans. Incentives are included in the act to increase the number of college students who will give by compensating them for time.