The ripple effect of volunteering
One good deed can make waves long into the future. Find out how one Cambodian community is continuing to benefit from a project that concluded in 2018.

Our core approaches
How we ensure that we build communities that are resilient, inclusive and accountable.

What role for charities amid the growth of the ‘informal sector’?
It’s vital to move beyond artificial divisions between the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ sectors to a new spirit of active citizenship

Influencing and advocacy
VSO influences policy at national, regional and international levels. We bring the experience of volunteers, partners and marginalised people to decision makers.
Five ways volunteers are tackling youth unemployment in Uganda
Uganda's huge youth population has the potential to lift the country out of poverty, but only if high levels of unemployment can be reduced. VSO volunteers are stepping up to help, and changing lives in the process.
Five volunteer impacts in Papua New Guinea
As VSO scales back operations in PNG after more than 50 years, we celebrate just a handful of the major impacts volunteers from around the world have had on the development of this diverse Pacific nation.

Helping female farmers get better at business
We’re training women in Ghana in essential business, agricultural and leadership skills – and empowering them to share their new-found knowledge with their communities.
Incomes, alternatives and revival: Life on Cambodia's Great Lake
Fishing was once easy in Cambodia’s Great Lake, Tonle Sap, with abundant fish and little competition. That’s no longer the case thanks to a VSO project.

HIV: Not a life sentence
In Zimbabwe, we're supporting prison inmates with HIV to live full and healthy lives after their sentences have been served. Three courageous people living with HIV share their stories and hopes for the future.