Read the latest news and updates from volunteers, partners, and staff across the moana working collectively towards a world with thriving communities.
Resettling in Kiribati - Frances Hermann
23.09.2019 - Frances Hermann is on her third assignment with VSA, returning to Kiribati after two years to work with the Kiribati…
Motivated media in Solomon islands - Philippa Stevenson
16.09.2019 - Philippa Stevenson is an awardwinning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in print, radio, television and…
Second assignment - Danielle Petrie-Deely
09.09.2019 - Danielle Petrie-Deely is on her second assignment with World Vision Timor-Leste, working as a Design, Monitoring…
Back in Tuvalu
02.09.2019 - Denise Eddowes is one of VSA’s first volunteers to go to Tuvalu in 20 years. She’s working alongside the Ministry of…
Live and Learn and VSA Knowledge and Learning partnership launched
19.08.2019 - On Tuesday 30th July Volunteer Service Abroad and Live and Learn International celebrated the signing of a Pacific…
It takes a village to build a village
14.08.2019 - VSA volunteer Gordon Botha headed off to Papua New Guinea thinking he was going to be an administration adviser to…
Enterprising women in Bougainville
12.08.2019 - In 2015, the future was uncertain for five young women from villages near Chabai in Bougainville. Four years on…
Festival for the Future 2019
07.08.2019 - VSA attended Festival for the Future from July 26 - 28, and our staff were inspired, talking to hundreds of…
On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Birth
20.07.2019 - July 20 marks the 100th birthday of legendary New Zealander, and VSA’s founding president, Sir Edmund Hillary. Sir…
Talk about Rainbow and Takatāpui Issues
28.05.2019 - For Pride this year, three of our Wellington staff who are part of the LGBTTQAIPPSN+ community get together to talk…
VSA goes to the Pacific Games - Samoa Language Week
27.05.2019 “Samoa, We On!” The rallying cry from the Pacific Games 2019 Organising Committee has pulled together the entire…
East New Britain's first Safe House
21.05.2019 - Family and sexual violence is endemic in Papua New Guinea. In 2015, a report by Human Rights Watch declared it “an…
Empowering young women in Bougainville
20.05.2019 - In 2015, five young women from villages near Chabai in Bougainville were facing uncertain futures. Unemployed and…
Performing in Vanuatu
20.05.2019 A small ni-Vanuatu theatre group has grown to work with and support youth all over Vanuatu.In a country with a high…
Timor-Leste's "reading generation"
13.05.2019 - Gaspar Freitas Kassa is Library and Museum Manager at the Xanana Gusmão Reading Room (XGRR) in Dili, Timor-Leste…
Half way there - Wendy Griffin
16.04.2019 - Wendy is currently volunteering as an Adult Literacy and Numeracy Officer with the Vanuatu Agriculture College. She…
Strong communities - one week after the Christchurch mosque attacks
22.03.2019 - It is now one week on from the horrific and tragic murder of innocent people in the Christchurch mosques, and the…
New global partnership with UNICEF
20.03.2019 - UNICEF and Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) signed a global partnership in March, which will see VSA volunteers work…
On Assignment with VSA: Hugo Egan in Timor-Leste
12.03.2019 - In 2018, Hugo Egan took up a VSA assignment with the Xanana Gusmão Reading Room in Dili, Timor-Leste. Hugo told VSA…
We Too - International Women's Day 2019
08.03.2019 - In her debut speech to the UN General Assembly last year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern noted that "It seems…
