Africa

VSA volunteer Victoria Gregory believes a new project being introduced by her South African partner organisation will make life better for many children dealing with the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS, and the long-term legacy of apartheid. Read More

As VSA’s South Africa office closes in December* VSA Programme Officer Camille Kirtlan chats about the connections made in a country that still feels like home whenever she returns. Read More

Tanzania-based volunteer Anne Perera wasn’t fazed when a power cut meant she couldn’t use her blender in a juice-processing demonstration she was running for a group of women in the kitchen of her Arusha home.   Read More

Douglas Hancock and Francoise Lafferty, took the ‘married and working together’ plunge when they became VSA volunteers working together in Tanzania. Douglas found a surprising number of positives to the arrangement… Read More

Katherine Weka accompanied her partner, Gareth Evans, to South Africa as he took up a VSA assignment as a GIS and Database Specialist. She talks about how she’s been spending her time. Read More

Joanne Lentfer recently returned to Wellington from a three-year assignment as a management adviser at the Bethany Children’s Home in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, in South Africa.  Mthatha was formerly the capital of the Transkei homeland.  She looks back on her time there. Read More

Tony Lambdon, Sports Development Adviser with Imvomvo, South Africa. Six months in to his assignment, Sports Development Adviser, Tony Lambdon, offers a unique and personal reflection on the positive benefits of sports to young lives.... Read More

Shona Jennings, Advocacy and Learning, South Africa. Volunteeringcomes with side effects, writes VSA volunteer, Shona Jennings, from South Africa. Read More

Mary Morwood, Physiotherapist, South Africa. Nothing much fazes Dunedin Physiotherapist, Mary Morwood after volunteering to work with torture victims in Sri Lanka. However her latest assignment with Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) in South Africa tested this veteran traveller and health worker. Read More

Joanne Lentfer, Management Adviser, South Africa. One in five people in southern Africa is estimated to be infected with HIV but for orphaned children depending on stressed and stretched welfare system, the situation is worse. They are caught on the change of the tide in the ‘new' South Africa. Read More