Volunteer comings and goings

Featuring our new volunteers who have headed out on assignment in March and April 2013. Read More

Polly was on a UniVol assignment after completing her Development Studies degree at Victoria University. She worked as an intern with the Tonga Energy Road Map, a new government agency focusing on increasing energy efficiency and renewable energy. Read More

Susan Kelly volunteered as Management and Administration Adviser to the Catholic Archdiocese of Rabaul in Kokopo, PNG, from February 2010 to December 2012. This was Susan’s second VSA assignment – she previously spent three years as a volunteer in Bougainville. Read More

Marian was easy to spot as she cycled through Dili’s hectic streets not just because her fair skin showed she wasn’t local, but because she wore a bike helmet – a rare sight in Timor-Leste's capital. Read More

Gina’s assignment was as Communications and Administration Assistant to the Tonga National Youth Congress (TNYC). She also picked up work with On the Spot and Women in Sustainable Enterprises (WiSE). Read More

Every now and again a VSA assignment is dramatically changed by circumstances beyond anyone’s control – in the case of Greg and Terri Seon, that change was due to a flood which washed out the only access to Greg’s project. Read More

Amanda worked as Monitoring & Evaluation and Marketing Assistant at Kairak Vudal Resource and Training Centre (KVRTC). This covered both support and training within the KVRTC offices and in-field work with their clients. Read More

It is often the relationships built up with colleagues and new friends on assignment that have the greatest impact on our volunteers, and this was the case with Russell Wark, who was on UniVol assignment in Tonga in 2012. Read More

“In one school when I left the kindergarten class to go back to the main school I had a trail of little children walking behind me. The teacher had to call them back. They were very curious about the white man – I was the new attraction.” Read More

Margrit first volunteered for VSA 20 years ago. She was then a teacher with three years’ working experience heading over to the Cook Islands to teach in a local secondary school. Two decades later the time seemed right to pack her case again. Read More