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Kathy Lette, best-selling author of Mad Cows and Foetal Attraction, has joined forces with VSO to launch Walk for Tabita, a series of UK walks designed to raise over £50,000. 

VSO is giving students across the UK the chance to turn the tables on their teachers in new fundraising challenge Teacher’s Got Talent.

Brian Rockliffe, director of the VSO Federation, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours list for 'services to International Development'.

VSO was voted Charity of the Year last night at Dod’s Charity Champion awards. Nominated and voted for exclusively by British Parliamentarians, VSO was hailed most effective charity of 2009.

18 young deaf volunteers from the UK and Nepal unite for a pioneering programme to smash stereotypes and celebrate international volunteering.

Community groups throughout the UK are being invited to help shape a new government scheme to promote and fund links with the developing world by taking part in a nationwide survey.

VSO supporters, would-be volunteers, and fans of Papua New Guinea should tune in to Charley Boorman Sydney to Tokyo: By Any Means this autumn on BBC2 to see Charley getting a taste of life as a VSO volunteer.

VSO welcomes the positive steps the UN General Assembly has taken in expressing unanimous support for the creation a UN women’s agency to be headed by a new Under Secretary-General (USG). 

International development charity VSO will be at the forefront of a number of events that are part of this year’s Take One Action Film Festival, which kicks off this Thursday with a special event for schools and the Scottish premier of Madonna’s I Am Because We Are, a portrayal of life in Malawi.  The events take place at 10.00 and 20.20 at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.

VSO’s International Programmes Director, Richard Hawkes, responds to International Policy Network’s research report, Fake Aid and explores how, with the support of the British Government, VSO is helping more people work their way out of poverty.

News has emerged from the UN that the decision on the creation of a new UN women’s agency could be delayed by yet another year. Over the past year there has been an overwhelming consensus among governments from across the world in favour of the women’s agency. Despite this, a number of governments, including reportedly, Cuba, Iran, Egypt and Sudan, are trying to postpone the decision.

The recession is de-skilling the UK workforce, the international development charity VSO warned today, as new research revealed that more than ten million Brits worry they are stagnating professionally.

This summer six parliamentarians will be using part of their summer recess to help tackle global poverty by participating in VSO’s Parliamentarian Volunteering Scheme. VSO is supporting the MPs to use their advocacy, lobbying, and policy-making skills to help tackle poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Local VSO returned volunteers are urgently calling on their primary school colleagues across Derby to follow in their footsteps and spend just 20 minutes of their summer holiday applying to be a volunteer. The international development charity is looking for primary teachers who can share their skills across the developing world in 2010.

VSO officially opens its programme office in Tajikistan on 25 June 2009 following its official registration in Tajikistan last September. The British ambassador, His Excellency Mr. Trevor Moore, will host the official launch of VSO’s newest country programme. 

A government-funded education initiative to engage young people in development issues has won an award for its contribution to the professional development of teachers in global education.

As a new survey shows over two-thirds of UK adults have reassessed their career values because of the recession, Sir Alan’s former Apprentice Lucinda Legerwood is embarking on life after the boardroom as she shuns the rat race to take up a two-year placement as a VSO volunteer.

Leading international development charity VSO is urgently looking for 50 experienced primary school teachers to make a break from the UK. Primary school teachers are being urged to apply before the 31st May resignation date so they kick start the next academic year with their biggest challenge yet in Africa and Asia.

As her first public action in office, VSO’s first female Chief Executive Marg Mayne is spearheading the charity’s demand for the UN to establish a new women’s agency.

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Wales’s programme for tackling poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, whilst developing the skills of managers in Wales, gets underway this week with the first cohort of candidates ready for departure.