Read the latest news and updates from volunteers, partners, and staff across the moana working collectively towards a world with thriving communities.
Changing young lives in Timor-Leste
26.09.2018 - Jeanette Daysh is volunteering as a Small Business Adviser with the Nazareth Foundation in Dili, Timor-Leste. Six…
Changing young lives in Timor-Leste
26.09.2018 - Jeanette Daysh is volunteering as a Small Business Adviser with the Nazareth Foundation in Dili, Timor-Leste. Six…
How VSA volunteers helped secure clean water in Timor-Leste
18.07.2018 - How VSA volunteers helped secure clean water in Timor-Leste
Stretched health services in East New Britain
27.06.2018 - With government health services thin on the ground in Papua New Guinea, volunteers and NGOs step up to fill the…
Small Island Cultural Experience - Wendy Griffin
18.06.2018 - Wendy is currently volunteering as an Adult Literacy and Numeracy Officer with the Vanuatu Agriculture College. She…
Volunteering to improve water supply in the Pa Enua, Cook Islands
06.06.2018 - Access to a reliable water supply is something we here in New Zealand take for granted. However, in the Pa Enua…
VSA secures core funding for five years
Tuesday May 29, 2018Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) is delighted that the Government has agreed to provide it with core funding to…
Lesley Dee tribute
29.05.2018 - VSA sadly lost a member of the whānau this month, when Lesley Dee passed away. For many years, Lesley donated her…
So why am I here anyway? - Heather Ware
28.05.2018 - By Heather Ware in VanuatuIt is strange how things happen. Our children left home, my husband’s work is in Auckland…
Everyday artistry - Stephen Soole
28.05.2018 - By Stephen Soole in VanuatuVanuatu abounds with natural beauty and rich culture; it’s a country where western and…
New MOU with the University of Otago
28.05.2018 An initiative that has enabled more than 100 students, many from Otago University, to carry out voluntary work abroad…
Kevin McCarthy – Number One
28.05.2018 - Kevin is volunteering as a Marketing, Communications and Fundraising Adviser with the Elwood J Euart Association in…
Life begins in Vanuatu - Wendy Griffin
21.05.2018 - I arrived, hot and excited at midnight on May 3rd after, can you believe, 18 hours of travelling, starting a Timaru…
Bougainville’s heroes
10.05.2018 - Mary-Ann Hardcastle volunteered as a Nurse Trainer in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s. She and her husband have…
Making jewellery in Malaita
23.04.2018 - Sophie Lewis-Smith returned from her assignment as a Jewellery Making Adviser at the Malaita Institute of Technology…
Plogging for plastic in the Cook Islands
22.04.2018 - Hilary Boyes has found a way to take her assignment with her on her morning run.Hilary, who’s volunteering as a…
Hip-hop for life
19.04.2018 - VSA’s first hip-hop assignment is on a roll – trainer and choreographer Josh Mitikulena, who’s been working with Wan…
Healing Bougainville's wounds
18.04.2018 - "Leitana Nehan’s story began with three women giving birth on the same day in 1990 (in an empty warehouse, hiding…
Celebrating Student Volunteer Week
28.04.2018 - In 2017, we celebrated 10 years of our UniVol programme. This year, we've sent another 15 UniVols to countries…
The First Month - Leesa Roy
16.04.2018 - Leesa Roy is accompanying her partner, Kevin McCarthy, who's on assignment as a Marketing, Communications and…
