Innovation to end global poverty: VSO pioneers technology for development
Lesson plans delivered to teachers in India via SMS, tablets introduced to classrooms in Malawi to improve numeracy and specialist units created to bring down newborn mortality rates by 40% in five...
View ArticleHigher maternal and newborn death rates in Sierra Leone due to Ebola fears
Despite adequate numbers of maternal health workers showing up to work, new research published today (Tues 6th October) reveals it was the patients who stayed away at their own peril for fear of...
View ArticleVSO gets European Commission certification as a high quality volunteer...
October 26th, 2015: As part of the European Commission Certification Mechanism under the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, VSO International has been certified as a volunteer...
View ArticleShakespeare Lives in 2016
VSO named as major charity partner of the Shakespeare Lives campaign, a major global programme for 2016 celebrating Shakespeare’s works and his influence on culture, education and society on the 400th...
View ArticleVSO celebrates 20th Christmas Carol Concert with celebrity guests
Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London Thursday 10th of December 2015 @ 7:30pm Tickets www.vsointernational.org/christmas-concert
View ArticleOver half of British workers would sacrifice time and money to volunteer...
Results from a national online poll out today (Weds 2 Dec) show that 56% of British full time workers would freely volunteer their skills to fight poverty in a developing country, if they had the...
View ArticleLeading youth development programme, ICS, sends out its 20,000th volunteer to...
On Tuesday 23rd February, 22 year old Tania Tuzizila from Croydon will be the 20,000th young person to volunteer with the International Citizen Service (ICS) – a youth development programme for 18 to...
View ArticleDonald Trump modern day equivalent to Shakespeare’s character King Lear...
When given a list of celebrities, US Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, is the British public’s top choice (28%) as representing the modern day equivalent of King Lear, the Shakespeare character who...
View ArticleNepal, one year on – VSO heads up new recovery and reconstruction hub.
VSO and the UK government (DfID) have set up the ‘National Disaster Recovery Coordination Secretariat’ (NDRCS) in Kathmandu. It aims to help rebuild Nepal, following the devastation of two earthquakes...
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