Read the latest news and updates from volunteers, partners, and staff across the moana working collectively towards a world with thriving communities.
Counting down - Leesa Roy
16.02.2018 - Leesa Roy is accompanying her partner, Kevin McCarthy, who's on assignment as a Marketing, Communications and…
Why I Volunteer - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol
14.02.2018 - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol was on a one year assignment as Support Officer with the Samoa Association of Sport and…
My First Month in Samoa - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol
14.02.2018 - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol was on a one year assignment as Support Officer with the Samoa Association of Sport and…
Willingness - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol
14.02.2018 - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol was on a one year assignment as Support Officer with the Samoa Association of Sport and…
Stop the Constant Questioning - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol
14.02.2018 - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol was on a one year assignment as Support Officer with the Samoa Association of Sport and…
You time - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol
14.02.2018 - Thoraya Abdul-Rassol was on a one year assignment as Support Officer with the Samoa Association of Sport and…
Seaside kindies
25.01.2018 - Wendy Griffin undertook her second VSA assignment from 2014-2017 (her first was in Bhutan in 1993-1994). Working…
Blast From The Past
31.11.2017 - In Solomon Islands, Danielle Jones is accompanying her partner, Nid Satjipanon, a legal adviser for the Ministry of…
Fresh water in remote Timor-Leste
14.11.2017 - Trevor and Alison Gatland were based in the coastal town of Baucau, three hours’ drive east of Timor-Leste’s…
Final reflections - Stephen Soole
13.11.2017 - By Stephen Soole in VanuatuIt’s incredible how fast the time has sailed by. What happened to the time I thought I…
Volunteering is a reward in itself - Stephen Soole
13.11.2017 By Stephen Soole in Vanuatu Time has flown by, and in so many ways, lots has happened, yet in others, so very…
Acclimatisation: Arawa
07.10.2017 By Matthew Brittain in BougainvilleAs I sit in my house, which would fit like a glove in a 1980s New Zealand…
My umbrella - Ann Green (Bougainville)
06.10.2017 - By Ann GreenVolunteer Ann Green looks at life on assignment in Bougainville, via the most useful thing she…
10 years of UniVols
01.10.2017 - In 2007, the first group of UniVols took up their assignments in South Africa, Vanuatu and Tanzania. In the 10 years…
Butterflies in Bougainville
10.08.2017 - By Ann Green in BougainvilleThe Bougainville Blue Butterfly - found in the Solomon Islands and Bougainville - is…
Hafoti Cooperative opens its first dedicated Production Centre
15.06.2017 - A light sprinkling of rain greeted the attendees at the opening of HAFOTI’s first dedicated production centre…
Bougainville UniVols
30.12.2016 - Fifteen years after Bougainville's brutal conflict ended, the country is ready for a new chapter. In conjunction…
Matchin Bay's Maiden Voyage
24.10.2016 - Peter Bellingham is a volunteer Boat Building Adviser for VSA at Nazareth Rehabilitation Programme (NRP) in Chabai…
Birgit takes out Tour de Timor
21.10.2016 - Last month Timor-Leste based volunteer Birgit Hermann finished on top of her category for one of the most gruelling…
Playdough, karate and a camera
30.09.2016 - It’s a long way from Samuel Marsden preschool to Bougainville. But Vasti Venter left her position as head of the…
