VSO runs a vast number of projects spanning our three global programmes; health and wellbeing, inclusive education and resilient livelihoods. Here are examples of our current and past work.
Examples of our projects in
Inclusive education
Making sure everyone gets the skills they need to live a fulfilled, dignified life.
Back to School Campaign, Pakistan Flood 2022
In 2022 Pakistan experienced some of its deadliest floods in years. VSO are helping to ensure education is still possible for children displaced by flooding.
Strengthening civil society organisations for resilient and inclusive education governance
Ensuring every child in Nepal has the right to a quality education, free from discrimination.
Building Foundational Learning Through Technology
In April 2023 VSO was delighted to launch an exciting new educational technology programme “Building Foundational learning through technology project (BFLTT) in Sierra Leone.
Empowering Adolescent Girls to Learn and Earn (EAGLE)
Improving literacy, numeracy, business, and life skills for adolescent girls in Mozambique.
Empowering education: transforming teaching and supporting students in Cambodia
Enhancing the inclusiveness, effectiveness, and relevance of upper secondary education in Cambodia.
Building Educational Foundations through Innovation and Technology (BEFIT)
Improving foundational literacy and numeracy skills for 3.5 million children in Malawi.
Let’s Learn Through Play (Twigire Mumikino Rwanda)
Championing play as a tool for creative, engaged and resilient learners in Rwanda.
VSOSCHOOL app: Using technology to empower educators
The VSOSCHOOL app is an invaluable resource that supports children and educator’s learning – both inside and outside the classroom.
Supporting Rohingya child refugees
Providing Rohingya child refugees with vital care, home-based education, and safe places to learn and play.
Using technology to deliver high quality education
Addressing global education challenges with award-winning technology.
Previous education projects worked on include
- Empowering a new generation of adolescent girls with education (ENGAGE) in Nepal
- Numeracy for All - Developing low-cost, high-quality maths teaching aids
- Building Learning Foundations - Developing long-term, sustainable solutions to improve basic teaching for every child in Rwanda
- Sisters for Sisters' Education - Supporting vulnerable girls in Nepal to succeed in school and beyond
- Capacity Development Partnership - Supporting equal access to quality education through government capacity development in Cambodia
- Education in Emergencies - Building resilient education systems in fragile spaces
Resilient livelihoods
Ensuring people have the skills and opportunities needed to support themselves and their families.
From Waste to Work
Strengthen green youth-led start-ups to create decent jobs through waste recovery.
Futuremakers
Equipping youth with the skills and knowledge to set up their own businesses and identify employment opportunities in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Rural Employment for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (RECOVER)
Supporting vulnerable rural communities in Cambodia with economic recovery after the pandemic, to combat extreme poverty, high levels of debt and food insecurity.
Generating Resilient Environments and Promoting Socio-Economic Development of the East Tonle Sap Lake (GREEN)
Livelihoods of those living on the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia are being threatened by overfishing and climate change. GREEN is helping vulnerable communities to transition to sustainable agriculture while boosting their incomes.
Collective Action for Rights Realisation in Extractives Industry (CLARITY)
Addressing the challenges that exclude women, youth, and people with disabilities from equally benefiting from the extractive sector in Tanzania's Lake Zone districts.
Previous livelihoods projects worked on include
- Youth Empowerment for Social Cohesion (YESC) in Bangladesh
- T-LED - Encouraging grassroots growth in Tanzania
- Solar Mamas - Empowering women and powering communities
- Lake Zone Youth Empowerment project - Empowering Tanzanian girls and young mothers
- Cocoa Life - Increasing profits for cocoa farmers in Ghana
- Improving Market Access for the Poor (IMA4P) - Supporting poor farming households to make a sustainable living in Cambodia, Nigeria and Malawi
- Growing Together - Overcoming rural poverty through farming innovations in Bangladesh
- SCOPE (Skills and Capacity for Organisational Productivity and Employment) - Training Uganda's young population
Adolescent health and wellbeing
Improving health services for all and empowering the most marginalised to exercise their right to quality care.
Make Way
Embracing intersectionality for inclusion in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.
Preventing gender-based violence through transforming gender norms
Reducing gender-based violence and discrimination against women and girls in Nepal.
Improving the health and wellbeing of prison populations in Southern Africa
Improving prison health through an innovative combination of volunteer peer support, skills training, and advocating for change.
Previous health projects worked on include:
- Speak it Loud - Amplifying the voices of women's movements to address violence against women in Zimbabwe
- Imbere Heza - Ensuring Deaf young people aren't excluded from sexual and reproductive health services
- Breaking with tradition: Engaging men to tackle gender based violence in Sierra Leone
- Interactive theatre for justice - Using drama to empower marginalised groups in Bangladesh, eSwatini, Nepal, Tanzania and Rwanda
- Adolescent TALK! (Training and Local Knowledge) - Tackling sexual health taboos in Zambia
- Reducing newborn deaths in Ethiopia and Uganda
- Pakistan Forum for Democratic Policing - Combatting gender-based violence through democratic policing
- Doctors for Development - Reaching isolated communities in Sierra Leone with pioneering maternal health technology
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Inclusive and resilient education
Making sure everyone gets the skills they need to live a fulfilled, dignified life.
We helped over 3.2 million people to access the quality education they deserve in 2022-23.
Adolescent and youth health and wellbeing
Improving health services and empowering people to exercise their right to quality care.
We helped almost 90,000 people access better healthcare in 2022-23.
Resilient livelihoods
Ensuring people have the skills and opportunities needed to support themselves and their families.
200,000 people benefited from our work supporting livelihoods in 2022-23.