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Felicity Campbell volunteered as a teacher in Tonga in 1973. Read More

Ken Baker volunteered from 1973-74 at Tupou High School, Tonga. Read More

Duk Duks, members of a secret society based in the Rabaul area, make their way through forest covered with ash from the nearby Tavurvur volcano during a ceremony to celebrate the life of a local big man. Papua New Guinea, 2008. Photograph Layne Stevenson. Read More

Russell Priest volunteered in 1968 at the Melanesian Mission junior boys’ secondary school on Ugi Island, Eastern Solomon Islands. Read More

John Stanley volunteered in Solomon Islands during 2005, at Stuyvenberg Training Centre in N'aana Makira Ulawa. Read More

Gwen Stanley volunteered in Solomon Islands during 2005, at Stuyvenberg Training Centre in N'aana Makira Ulawa. Read More

Having been an active Member and a Fellow of both the New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology (NZIFST) and Singapore Institute of Food Science & Technology (SIFST), when I arrived in Tanzania on my voluntary assignment, I was looking for an equivalent Tanzanian organisation to join. Read More

Mandy Brown volunteered as a Tourism Research and Development Assistant on VSA's UniVol programme, working at the Department of Tourism, Vanuatu. She came back to New Zealand in December 2011. Read More

New Zealand-born, Samoan-raised in Auckland, Junior Ulu, was VSA’s Pacific Programme Officer from 2003-2011 and is now the Country Programme Manager for Polynesia. Originally a secondary school history teacher, Junior has swapped his classroom for a life working in development with VSA volunteers. Read More

Philip Lees volunteered in Indonesia from 1981 to 1983, on the government's Volcanic Debris Control Scheme. Read More