VSA recruits and sends skilled New Zealanders to work as volunteers with communities in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Our volunteers work with local communities to help them achieve their own goals and solutions by sharing skills, energy, and experience. It is our partner organisations in developing countries who decide what they need, and we work with those organisations to design effective assignments. VSA sends people, not money, which is a form of development assistance that has proven to be highly successful in helping communities.