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Something to shout about: India’s Right to Education Act
VSO has worked with Delhi-based youth organisation Swechha for many years. We have provided them with long-term volunteers and youth volunteers as part of the International Citizen Service. Vedika Jiandani, Youth Action Supervisor at Swechha tells us about the recent campaigns her organisation has been working on.
Three years ago India officially recognised education… Read more »
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Helping young people to get involved in development
VSO and Youth is a policy position paper which sets out how and why we are supporting young people. It looks at how VSO is helping young people living in poverty to access essential services like education and health, and to get employment.
More importantly the paper looks at how young people can… Read more »
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 Swechha, which is a youth-run and youth-focused organisation that provides a platform for people to ‘be the… Read more »
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 »
