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Promoting the role of marginalised communities in development
I attended an excellent event yesterday in London where VSO and United Nations Volunteers (UNV) formally launched their new partnership to promote innovation in volunteerism, strengthen volunteer action and to improve practices. Crucially, the partnership will promote the role and voice of volunteers from mariginalised communities in development.
In the ornate… Read more »
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By young people for young people – volunteering advocacy in Guyana
I’ve recently returned from my VSO placement as volunteerism advocacy adviser in Guyana. I was working to raise the profile of volunteering for national development. I had the opportunity to work with voluntary community across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
When the volunteer community were developing their initial advocacy objectives… Read more »
Another big step
Today VSO staff were in the UN General Assembly in New York, for International Year of the Volunteer – 10 years on.
VSO influenced member states with a position paper on a UN Resolution passed this morning. Our chief executive spoke at the NGO forum on volunteerism. Images of VSO’s work… Read more »
A big thank you on International Volunteer Day
I want to take this opportunity, on International Volunteer Day 2011, to say a huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone – volunteers, staff and partners alike – who have contributed so much to making volunteering and volunteerism such a powerful force for good in the world. Volunteering goes to the heart of what it… 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 »
Thought-provoking debates at volunteer action conference
VSO partners and staff from across southern and east Africa were in Johannesburg last week, to attend the first regional conference dedicated to volunteering for development. The Southern Africa Conference on Volunteer Action for Development took place on 17-19 October.
The first day started with great excitement, as colleagues, partners, donors, government representatives gathered… Read more »
