South Sudan: New country, amazing opportunities
How can you help to support the development of education and health in the world's newest country?
Find out about current volunteering opportunities in South Sudan now.
Volunteer with VSO
We are urgently looking a variety of professionals. Share your professional expertise and knowledge with local organisations, you will access international exposure and get to experience new cultures.
Apply now for a life changing experience.
Wangari Mathaai's dream lives on through VSO Jitolee Partners
The morning of 24th November last year, found VSO Jitolee staff, volunteers and their partners from the Secure Livelihoods programme planting trees in Loikitok, South Eastern Kenya...
Challenge
Having acquired very little formal education, Esther Gilisho was forced into an ealrly marriage, an unfortunate, but common story in the lives of many Maasai women.
Catalyst
VSO volunteer, Sally Renshaw, uses her expertise in marketing and craft production, to give women like Esther new skills for a livelihood and better life.
Result
Exposure, confidence, production and market skills that have changed the life of Esther, and other women, for the better.
Enlightenment in Eastern Kenya: positive change for women in Laikipia.
Esther Gilisho shares her story of positive change - from employment to self-employment - and what this has done for her and her community.
Read Kusini
A volunteer from Kenya shares on how he managed to overcome language barrier to meet his placement objectives in Cambodia.
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Where we work
Rwanda
DisabilityEducation- Population:
- 11 million
- GDP per capita:
- US$1,102
- HDI ranking:
- 152 out of 169
- Life expectancy:
- 51
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