Read the latest news and updates from volunteers, partners, and staff across the moana working collectively towards a world with thriving communities.
Mentoring in Timor-Leste
6 November 2020
Nearly two weeks into her one-year assignment, Jolene Simoes, senior communications adviser in Timor-Leste found…
Improving outcomes for communities in PNG
27 October 2020
In 2018 Neal Hartley travelled to PNG for what seemed like a simple enough assignment - to create a website and…
New partnership supports emergency care development in the Pacific
19 October 2020
Volunteer Service Abroad Te Tūao Tāwāhi (VSA) and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) have…
October 2020 update
Kia ora koutou katoa,
Over recent months we have shared a number of updates about COVID-19’s impact on Volunteer Service…
Fifty years supporting VSA
21.09.2020 - In the late 1960s, while he was teaching at Queen Victoria School in Fiji, Gavin Kerr helped VSA with a young…
A passion for quality education - Tonga
11.09.2020 - “There is a real passion for quality education in Tonga,” says VSA volunteer Julie Mcllwraith. “Tongan tertiary…
Tongan Language Week / Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e Lea Faka-Tonga 2020 (David Cramp)
07.09.2020 - For Tongan Language Week / Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e Lea Faka-Tonga, we are delighted to give an update about VSA tūao…
Creating special connections in Kūki 'Āirani - Cook Islands
04.09.2020 - Anita Corbett accompanied her husband Bruce on his assignment as a Water Engineer with Office of the Prime…
Bruce Corbett - Resilience in the face of climate change (Cook Islands)
31.08.2020 - As his 65th birthday loomed over the horizon, engineer Bruce Corbett decided it wasn’t time yet to become “a boring…
When assignments change - Wayne Wooff (Vanuatu)
27.08.2020 - Despite everyone’s best efforts, VSA assignments do not always go to plan. Our volunteers often need exceptional…
St Peter Chanel Catholic School of Secondary Teacher Education (Papua New Guinea)
24.08.2020 - Principal Alfred Tivinarlik doesn’t hesitate when asked to describe the VSA volunteers who’ve spent time at the St…
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2020
17.08.2020 - After spending two years in Isabel Province in Solomon Islands, there are so many amazing memories…
International Youth Day 2020 - Lewis Johnson (Solomon Islands)
12.08.2020 - For International Youth Day we are delighted to kōrero with our returned tūao Lewis Johnson who volunteered…
Cook Islands Language Week / Te epetoma o te reo Māori Kuki Airani, [Dahyoung Kim (Dee)]
07.08.2020 - For Cook Islands Language Week / Te epetoma o te reo Māori Kuki Airani, we are delighted to kōrero with our Cook…
Volunteering, chronicling and more - supporting VSA since 1974 (Tonga)
27.07.2020 - Award-winning writer and photographer Neville Peat has been involved with VSA since 1974 – as a volunteer in…
Mary Hammonds on assignment in PNG (1978-79)
27.07.2020 From The VSA Way (1987) Author -Neville Peat
Mary Hammonds, of New Plymouth, worked as a nurse/midwife in…
Developing sustainable tourism through yoga - Solomon Islands
20.07.2020 - The Western Province of the Solomon Islands has rugged natural beauty, proud and friendly people and an incredibly…
Being a farm mechanic on Eua in 1970 - Jim Greenhough (Tonga)
03.07.2020 - In 1970 I was lucky enough, as an 18 year old Nelson farm boy, to be selected as a VSA school leaver volunteer and…
On the path to change in Bougainville - Douglas Hancock
29.06.2020 - After his five months assignment in Bougainville, Douglas Hancock arrived back in New Zealand just in the nick of…
Facing energy and geological resource challenges in the Pacific - Charlie Inggs (Fiji)
25.06.2020 - Developing sources of sustainable and renewable energy is critically important in the Pacific. Most Pacific nations…
