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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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Youth raising their voices with Members of Parliament
Climate change affects all members of society in Bangladesh and VSO works with youth clubs in Bangladesh to find ways to combat the effects climate change.
In January we organised an open sharing event which involved four youth club members from Khagrachari presenting case studies to Members of Parliament from All… Read more »
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 »
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 »
VSO Bangladesh embarks on innovative new strategy
I spent last week in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. I was working with the VSO team who have devised an exciting five year country strategy plan for 2011 to 2015. The committed team of staff, volunteers and partners are working on an ambitious programme of ‘social transformation’ in… Read more »
Focus on youth in Asia and Africa
Last week was an historic week for VSO. Our partner organisations from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India Tajikistan, the Philippines and Nepal all contributed to lively discussions with staff from countries across the region (including China and Indonesia)… Read more »
