Two women sorting waste for recycling
VSO/Paul Wambugu

Take our waste and recycling quiz!

Every day, billions of tonnes of waste are dumped, but how much do you know about waste and recycling? It's time to find out in our short quiz!

You can play your part in helping to clean up the planet, by supporting waste pickers in Kenya.

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Elizabeth with her 2 children

This Christmas, will you help ensure women’s futures aren’t thrown away?

You can help change the futures of waste pickers who work on Kenya’s rubbish dumps. It’s an essential but dangerous job, yet women aren’t being paid enough to feed themselves or their families.  

VSO volunteers are helping waste pickers transform waste into wages, but we can’t do it alone. Will you help?

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Haway with her daugther Fatima* and community volunteer Siad working to build peace IPDHE project on the Kenya Ethiopia border
VSO/Paul Wambugu

A ripple of change: how VSO volunteers are transforming communities

Every act of volunteering begins with a choice — a decision to act out of a desire to make a difference. Across the world, VSO volunteers are proving that one spark of action can ignite something much bigger. 

Group of girls learning outdoors
VSO Mozambique

The two volunteers empowering girls and young women in Mozambique

Nelma and Carmirene and are two volunteers working on VSO's EAGLE project in Mozambique. For Nelma and Carmirene, education is not just about school, it is about meeting people where they are and using the right tools to challenging harmful norms. Here are their stories.

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Opening doors to safety, education, and a brighter future

For girls in Karamoja, the poorest region in Uganda, being forced into early motherhood is all too common. This Christmas, you can open the doors to Safety, Education, and a Brighter Future.