A Certain Smile (Un certain sourire), written in 1958, is Francoise Sagan's second book. It tells about a student's love affair with a middle-aged man.
Besides, certain expenditures that NGOs save with the help of volunteering efforts of passionate and dedicated individuals which otherwise they may have to incur (and NGOs are usually fund starved) adds further to the need and demand for such efforts (individuals).
Smile Foundation makes a small initiative in this regard as a Facilitator for meeting the demand of its partner organizations by inviting requests from interested individuals willing to volunteer and offer their expertise and skills, doing need-capabilities analysis and recommending the concerned individuals to NGO partners or others as per suitability.
Since Smile facilitates the process, the volunteers would be appointed for need based assignments with a volunteering period of minimum one month.
It seems certain the Beijing Olympic volunteers will have "smile" as their key motto, although a global search for their slogan has yet to reveal its final result.
As a result, the words "smile" and "smiling" have found their way into thousands of the contributions that the organizers have received, including "I am your smile" from an oilfield worker and "smile while working and work while smiling" from a blind masseur.
Unlike in the West, where a person wearing a smile would be most likely regarded as someone who is friendly, kind and can be trusted, people in China are traditionaly encouraged to be serious looking than to show a big smile to strangers.
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