Blog

The English-language version of a new literacy booklet for beginner readers written by South Africa volunteer Alison Bowis has now gone to the printer and will be distributed to around 5000 primary schools in the Eastern Cape early in the new school year. Read More

Returned VSA volunteer David Redman worked in Tanzania as a Research and Publications Adviser for Haki Madini, a Tanzanian organisation representing the rights of small scale miners. He finished his two year assignment in November 2011. Read More

More than 500 children’s books are now on their way to tiny Etemwarore School in the Solomon Islands, thanks to a $6,000 grant organised by VSA volunteer Laurie Williams. Read More

Returned VSA volunteers, Judy and Roger Hogg, lived and worked in Tshani Village, on the Wild Coast of South Africa. They were on assignment from March 2010 until October 2011. Read More

In Vanuatu, the Christmas lights are up on the seafront in Port Vila, and an enormous blow-up plastic Santa is decorating the first-floor balcony of the VNPF building in Luganville. Read More

Returned VSA volunteer Ken Wong worked in Cambodia as a Science Faculty Adviser with the Faculty of Biology at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. He finished his assignment in October 2011. Read More

Tom Murray was one of our UniVol Project Friendship bloggers. Tom worked in the Solomon Islands as an environmental management assistant at the Arnavons Community Marine Conservation Area (ACMCA). Read More

Mattie Geary Nichol was one of our 2011 Univol Project Friendship bloggers. Mattie volunteered at the Northern Care Youth Centre (NCYC) in Vanuatu as a youth worker. Read More

Catherine van Gessel was one of our UniVol Project Friendship bloggers. She volunteered in rural Tanzania at the Tanzanian Episcopal Conference (TEC) kindergarten. The kindergarten opened in January 2011 with 50 students aged 5-6 years old. Read More

Returned VSA volunteers Gavin Reynolds and partner Andrea Dekrout lived and worked in Bougainville from May 2009 until March 2011. Read More