Since 1958 we've been sending volunteers to fight global poverty by sharing their skills and experience with people in developing countries. As a direct result of our work, there are now women and men able to make a living, children getting a quality education, AIDS orphans being looked after in their own community and disabled people living full lives.
Memory was nine when a truck driver raped her. Four years later she discovered she was HIV positive. Initially rejected by other children, Memory courageously shared her story with them. Now 20, she is a youth ambassador helping other children to learn to live with HIV. Your support for VSO’s work has made a huge and important difference to Memory’s life and enabled her to help other children coping with traumatic circumstances.
Calling all primary school teachers with at least three years' experience. We urgently need your skills for VSO's overseas programmes leaving in January 2010. Apply now.
Public sector employees can take advantage of a special Government-backed pension scheme when volunteering with VSO. Find out more.
Over the past months VSO and thousands of supporters have been campaigning for a new UN Women's Agency. All our efforts have borne fruit. Read more about this historic step forward for millions of women around the world...
Jenny Hobbs
Teacher trainer, The Gambia
More aid is to be contributed to Tanzania's budget, it has been reported.
26/11/2009
The Philippine president has sworn that justice will prevail after the killing of 57 people in the country.
25/11/2009
More HIV infections are spread due to heterosexual sex in China than any other factor, it has been found.
25/11/2009
A new bishop has been appointed for Vanuatu by the Vatican, it has emerged.
25/11/2009
Women in Tajikistan are suffering at the hands of their families, a new report has concluded.
24/11/2009
Thousands of residents in Cambodia have been left without homes after a devastating fire, it has been reported.
24/11/2009
Yellow fever vaccinations are getting underway in west Africa, it has been reported.
23/11/2009
A dispute between Macedonia and Greece over the official naming of the former country is expected to be resolved soon, it has been reported.
23/11/2009
VSO is the world's leading independent, international development charity that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries.
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