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The power of children’s voices in advocacy
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 »
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More holistic measures for people living with HIV and AIDS
Today marks the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day. It is therefore timely that VSO’s Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa (RAISA) held its annual conference last week on ‘Social Protection and HIV and AIDS’.
Over 50 conference delegates (a mixture of RAISA partners, volunteers and staff members) heard from a range of… Read more »
Bangladesh making slow progress on shortage of health workers
Successful advocacy often happens when the same issue can be raised at different levels of decision making. Recently, I was in Bangladesh and spent time with VSO partner the Health Rights Movement Bangladesh (HRMB). I was able to see an example of this joined up work at different levels.
At… Read more »
Thought-provoking debates at volunteer action conference: part two
The second half of the Southern Africa Volunteer Action for Development Conference in Johannesburg focussed on links between volunteerism and regional development. This was from the perspective of regional bodies such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, higher education institutes and the corporate sector.
Speakers talked about the… Read more »
Health workers issue heard loud and clear at UN
In New York, the issue of health workers was heard loud and clear at the UN General Assembly last month, through the actions of a wide ranging coalition of NGOs including VSO. The aim was to bring attention to the global shortage of health workers and to encourage world leaders to be… Read more »
Right to Information in India
I was saddened to read of the recent death of Shehla Masood, who joins nearly a dozen Right to Information (RTI) activists who have been killed in India since 2008.
The RTI movement campaigns for the fair implementation of the Right to Information Law, passed in 2005. The law… Read more »
