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.

Schoolgirls visiting an ecotourism site
Lisa Marie David

Our core approaches

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

Philip Goodwin, VSO CEO
VSO

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

Youth volunteers
VSO/Fabrice Macumbi

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.

Volunteer Karen Gartner and tailor Macklyne Katsuiime
VSO/Georgie Scott

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.

Grade 3 class at Gaulim Demonstration School in East New Britain during a phonics lesson
Sarah Wiles

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.

Women sit in a row and applaud as they listen to volunteer Juliana at a community meeting
VSO/Tim Maynard

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.

Peer educator Arthur instructs four other workmen in a junkyard
VSO/Peter Caton

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.

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