Valuing health workers

VSO raises awareness of the rights of health workers in the countries where we work.

Find out how we help the voices of health workers to be heard in national and international policy debates through our valuing health workers campaign.

Changing lives through sport

Find out about our work with SCORE in South Africa.

Welcome to VSO

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

Why volunteer?

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.

VSO sends volunteers rather than money. We work on long-term, sustainable solutions. And volunteers are how we do it. Nothing compares with the satisfaction of translating generosity into practical, life-changing achievements.

VSO supports 1GOAL

Education beats poverty. VSO together with international footballers,other 1GOAL partners and millions of people from across the globe. We have one goal: to help the 72 million children around the world who are missing out on a primary education get one.

Sign up to 1GOAL with VSO

Add your voice to our petition asking world leaders to give 72 million children primary education.

What we do

Latest developments

Stand up and take action

Help to make sure that world leaders keep their Millennium Development Goals commitments. Find out how you can get involved.

Corporate partners

VSO International needs experienced people to volunteer. Businesses need ways of inspiring and developing their staff. Our corporate partnerships provide ways to achieve all these objectives and more.

Participation and governance
Secure livelihoods

Peru

Population:: 29.5 million
GDP per capita:: $7,836
HDI ranking:: 78 out of 182
Life expectancy:: 73 years

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VSO International

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: