News

The decisive result of the presidential election in Timor-Leste on Monday has cleared the way for VSA to continue with plans to extend its programme into rural areas of the country. Read More

Almost 60 schools have so far signed up to VSA Project Friendship 2012, which runs from 6 to 12 August. Read More

VSA has now extended its Papua New Guinea programme into the province of New Ireland. Read More

VSA notes with sadness the death of the King of Tonga, King George Tupou V. Read More

VSA has launched an exciting new fundraising initiative to mark its 50th anniversary. Read More

The last of this year’s UniVols will leave New Zealand at the end of February to take up their assignments in the Pacific. Read More

Bougainville volunteer Dave Hall has been instrumental in getting a potentially disastrous chemical hazard removed from the site of the former water treatment plant in Arawa. Read More

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

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

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