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Brown Niyonsaba is signing to explain her work educating young deaf people on sexual and reproductive health issues

The deaf volunteer struggling for health equality

Around the world, people with disabilities face additional barriers to getting quality healthcare. Brown Niyonsaba, 31, is a young deaf woman volunteering to change this in her native Rwanda.

The story behind your Easter chocolate

Farmers in Ghana help produce some of the world's most delicious Easter treats. Here they share how they do it.

Increasing the income of disabled people in Rwanda

"You have a role of inspiring and building confidence."

Mary volunteered as an education specialist in Ghana, supporting children with disabilities gain access to school

Finding Ghana’s hidden children

Mary Loureth Carnable is a disability specialist volunteering with in Ghana. She's working to get vulnerable children such as girls and children with disabilities access to education.

Volunteer Paul has been working to make lessons more engaging

Education has to be the root of everything

Paul Jennings has been working as a teacher facilitator in one of the most deprived regions of Tanzania for the last 18 months. He’s supported teachers across 12 secondary schools to help them keep students engaged and attending school. As his placement comes to an end, he reflects on what he’s managed to achieve.

Zione Lipenga and LilianMkunga, Community Midwife Technician students with Beth Connelly a VSO volunteer Midwife Trainer for Nurse/Midwifery students at the Holy Family Mission Hospital, Palombe, Malawi.

Making the village a safe place to give birth: sharing midwifery skills in Malawi

UK midwife trainer Beth Connelly is spending a year at a hospital in rural Malawi sharing vital midwifery skills with more than 200 students

Alice Redfearn Volunteer English Teacher, Myanmar

5 minutes with... Alice Redfearn, English Language Trainer, Myanmar

"As a teacher I get a lot of respect here from my pupils, they are very polite, very eager to please. That’s quite change from the UK".

Volunteer nurse Jennnifer Sims with students in Myanmar

5 minutes with... Jennifer Sims, Specialized Nurse, Myanmar

“Before I came to Myanmar I never thought I could have achieved what I have with this project”.

5 minutes with... Jo Povey, Organisation Development Advisor, Myanmar

"I love working with a local organisation, and, as is often the case in a long term placement, being seen very much as part of the team”.

Petra Van Der Spek is a Methodology and Resource advisor at a Teacher Trainer College in Muramba

Active teaching in Rwanda

"The thousands and thousands of hills, the flora and the people are what truly make you fall in love with Rwanda"

Nuala with colleagues in the Ministry of Education and Science

Improving education standards in South Sudan

“If you are interested in being part of something that is a ‘first’, then South Sudan is the place to go"

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