Voluntary Service Overseas

VSO
Formation1958
FoundersAlec and Mora Dickson
TypeInternational development charity
Location
  • Worldwide
Volunteers
80,000
Websitewww.vsointernational.org

VSO is a not-for-profit international development organization charity with a vision for "a fair world for everyone" and a mission to "create lasting change through volunteering".[1] VSO delivers development impact[clarification needed] through a blended volunteer model consisting of international, national, and community volunteers working together to develop the systems and conditions for positive social change.[2] In 2022–23, VSO worked in 35 countries in Africa and Asia.[3]

VSO currently works in the following core programme areas:

  • Inclusive Education
  • Health
  • Livelihoods

And through three core approaches that are relevant to all the areas:

  • Social Inclusion and Gender
  • Social Accountability
  • Resilience

In addition, VSO has a youth focus in which young people are both the beneficiaries of social change outcomes as well as the primary actors in creating the change.

  1. ^ Voluntary Service Overseas. "A fair world for everyone: Annual report and accounts 2018/19" (PDF).
  2. ^ Voluntary Service Overseas. "Leave No One Behind: Annual report and accounts 2017/18" (PDF).
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