International

Tackling our assumptions about volunteering

Participant at workshop

I felt fortunate at the end of last month to join a group of VSO volunteers who were at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to learn about systemic action research, and how they will be able to apply this methodology to VSO’s Valuing Volunteering project.

You may remember Violeta Vajda… Read more »

Living below the poverty line

Live Below the Poverty Line shopping

Magnus Slingsby, VSO’s federation support officer, is showing his solidarity this week with the world’s poorest, by living on £1 a day for five days. In this week’s blog, Magnus tells us why he and thousands of others around the world are living below the poverty line.

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The power of children’s voices in advocacy

Nine is Mine campaigners

Steve Lewis was recently visiting the VSO programme in India. For this week’s blog we have invited one or our partners, Vedika Jiandani,  from the national volunteering programme in India to write for us.

I work for Sweccha, which is a youth-run and youth-focused organisation that provides a platform for people to ‘be the… Read more »