Where does your money go?
Your money is converted into extraordinary ordinary people - VSO’s volunteers.
91 pence in every pound you give us goes directly to our charity work. The other 9 pence is needed for raising funds and administration costs.
We don’t send food or aid, we send skilled people.
They have specific roles to fulfil in specific placements in the fight against poverty.
For example…
A small health centre in rural Malawi might need help serving a large population but not have even one doctor.
A VSO volunteer doctor would be sent for a year or two to treat patients hands on, develop the skills of nursing staff and train medical students in order to grow the next generation of doctors and nurses.
And that’s not all.
Our volunteer doctor might also work with local communities to prevent disease and so ease the burden on the health centre.
What does success look like?
The volunteer’s aim is to leave the health centre able to cope without VSO. That is success, and it is a long process, often taking more than one volunteer and more than one or two years.
A successful model health centre, helped by your gifts and our volunteers is one which eventually can function without us.
It can treat its own patients, however poor and remote their family living environment.
It runs an outreach facility constantly testing, diagnosing and treating people in their communities.
It teaches families and communities how to stay healthy.
It provides affordable healthcare for everyone, so all children, babies and vulnerable people can access healthcare.
It has improved resources and is able to manage them well.
It has a confident, hard-working staff who stay. Because now they are saving lives, are better resourced, better respected and are able to send home happy healthy patients.
As well as healthcare, our volunteers deliver education, disability, HIV and AIDS, securing sustainable livelihoods, participating and governance
