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Why volunteer with VSO?

VSO sends experienced professionals like you to share your professional skills with people living in poverty in developing countries. In doing so, you can bring about lasting change in their lives... and yours. By volunteering abroad with VSO, you’ll also get to use your experience in a new, challenging environment. Living and working as part of the local community, you’ll get to experience another culture in a way few people ever do.
What's Stopping You

By volunteering abroad you'll make a lasting change. Through charity work you'll help lift people out of poverty, learn new skills, and have a life changing experience. VSO works to make sustainable improvements in some of the world's poorest countries and give you experience volunteering abroad. So what’s stopping you? Apply to volunteer overseas today
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Volunteer abroad with VSO

In Africa or Asia your knowledge will be vital to helping combat poverty, and improving the quality of life for people who need it most.

Volunteering Opportunities

We are now looking for skilled people from many different backgrounds. So whether you’re in education, health, business management, IT or engineering and looking for charity work abroad, VSO may have a volunteer placement for you in one of over 30 developing countries.

Most of our placements require at least two years’ professional experience.

VSO ICS has placements for youth volunteers, aged 18-25 year-old, that don’t require professional experience.

Types of volunteer placement
Niche volunteer roles
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Find out what it’s like to be a volunteer

Volunteering abroad with VSO offers you the opportunity to use your professional experience in a different context; a different country, community and culture, with new challenges and adventures along the way.

You’ll develop new professional skills, which can add a different perspective to your work - and improve your career prospects upon your return.

For many volunteers, working abroad for an international development charity like VSO is a truly life changing experience. Read our life-changing stories or see our volunteer FAQs

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Making a difference

Personal, professional financial support and training

VSO offers you something that few other charity volunteering organisations can – the opportunity to make a lasting difference to people’s lives, simply by passing on your knowledge that will last for generations.

Read about the impact our volunteers make

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