Since 1958 we've been sending volunteers to fight global poverty by sharing their skills and experience with people in developing countries. As a direct result of our work, there are now women and men able to make a living, children getting a quality education, AIDS orphans being looked after in their own community and disabled people
living full lives.
Sharing skills, changing lives
Make a donation and help us fight global poverty. Your donations enable VSO to send skilled professionals to share their knowledge and experience with people living in poverty.
Volunteering is one of the most rewarding ways you can make a real difference to people living in the toughest circumstances. Most people join us because they want to give something back and find they get much more in return.
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Pakistan could face a food security problem as wheat rust threatens the country's crops.
08/03/2010
The World Bank has told India that it has to do more towards HIV and AIDS prevention.
08/03/2010
Food shortage worries have surfaced in northern Nigeria following the mass migration of farmers from the south.
05/03/2010
A group of academics are deferring their course at university to partake in a volunteering scheme in Ghana.
05/03/2010
The issue of contraception is taking a prominent role in the election run-up in the Philippines.
04/03/2010
A Chinese professor has criticised the new education reform proposed by the country's government.
04/03/2010
Kansas University is holding a Peace Corps week to encourage more volunteers to help abroad.
03/03/2010
A landslide in Uganda has caused the deaths of over 80 people - with another 200 still missing.
03/03/2010
VSO is the world's leading independent, international development charity that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries.
We greatly value our strategic relationship with the UK Department for International Development and other governmental bodies supporting our work around the world:
