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Sharing skills. Changing lives

VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Our vision is a world without poverty where people work together to fulfil their potential.

There are many ways to change the world.

Volunteering your skills overseas is one of them. By sharing your proven management experience, your motivational abilities and your talent for getting results with local colleagues, you can start something great and make a noticeable difference to the lives of some of the world’s poorest communities.

Now is the best time to volunteer

The Government has announced a fund to cover the pensions of public servants who volunteer overseas with VSO between April 2008 and March 2011. Find out more about getting your public sector pension paid.

Find out how you can help to change the world by clicking on the job title below that best suits your area of expertise.

Right now VSO has many urgent requests from organisations in 26 countries across Africa and Asia for volunteers with business and general management skills. If you want to share your skills with colleagues in some of the world's most disadvantaged communities and are ready to go overseas in the next 12 months, please apply now .

Information Evenings for Managers

10th and 29th September 2008, 6 - 8.30pm, London
If you're an experienced manager working in any sector and would like to find out more about volunteering with VSO, come along to one of our information evenings in September. You'll hear from returned volunteers and learn more about the volunteering opportunities available in your profession. Find out more and register »

Case Studies

Meredith Alexander, Management Adviser, Bangladesh
Patrick Lynn, Account Manager, Sahani farmer's co-operative, Central Java
Neil Colligan, Fund and Project Manager, HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Office, Awassa
Rebecca Dove, Management Adviser, Stung Treng hospital, Cambodia
Tom Craven, Management Adviser, Bombolulu Cultural and Handicrafts Centre, Mombasa
Jeremy Burgess, General manager, Word Publishing, Papua New Guinea
Rutti Goldberger, Management Adviser, General Welfare Pratisthan, Nepal

Career Break or Career Development?

94% of employers agree or strongly agree that long-term overseas voluntary activities broadens skills and experience.

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI), in conjunction with VSO, carried out an in depth study, Valuing Volunteering, into the effect of volunteering on professional development for managers.