Useful links > Other VSO websites

The following are other VSO websites and microsites which may be of interest. For details of The VolZone and RVZone, see our resources for volunteers.

VSO International website

• www.vsointernational.org

National partners & recruitment bases

• Canada
  
  http://www.vsocan.org
  
  
• Netherlands
  
  http://www.vso.nl
  
  
• Bahaginan (Philippines)
  
  http://www.vsobahaginan.org.ph
  
  
• Jitolee (Kenya and Uganda)
  
  http://www.vsojitolee.org
  
  
• India
  
  http://www.ivoindia.org
  
  
• Ireland
  
  http://www.vso.ie
  

Themed microsites

• Africa 2005
  Information about VSO's work in Africa. Launched in the run up to the G8 summit in Gleneagles on July 2 2005.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/africa2005  
  
  
• Find a Volunteer Find a Volunteer enables international development agencies to access skilled professionals from our register of volunteers to support their programmes.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/findavolunteer/
  
  
• Kivu Writers Workshops
  The workshops have been running since 2000 and are the brainchild of VSO English teacher, Ben Pollitt whose aim was to encourage a literary culture amongst Rwandan youth.
  
  http://www.kivuwriters.com
  
  
• Malawi Health Crisis
  Information for health profesionals on how they can help address the crisis in the health service of the East African country.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/malawi
  
  
• Primary Teachers - share a year, change lives
  By sharing your teaching skills for a year, you can help children in the world's poorest countries get the education they desperately need.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/primary
  
  
• Rwanda: time for a different story
  Information on VSO's press campaign focusing on the positive stories coming out of Rwanda ten years after the genocide.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/rwanda
  
  
• Spice up your life
  Find out the latest on our annual fundraising curry event.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/spice
  
  

Projects

• Pacific Skills Link
  A non-governmental organisation capacity building project which worked in Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Kiribati.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/psl
  
  
• RAISA (Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa)
  VSO initiative working with with government institutions and civil society organisations seeking to strengthen the response to the HIV & AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa.
  
  http://vso.org.uk/about/programme_initiatives/raisa.asp
  
  
• SPARK
  A five-year programme, launched in January 2000, to promote community-based approaches to natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. 
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/spark
  
  
• The Coffee Project
  Focused on fairtrade coffee production in Rwanda.
  
  http://www.vso.org.uk/thecoffeeproject