VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Our vision is a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential.



We bring people together to share skills, creativity and learning to build a fairer world.



VSO welcomes volunteers from an ever increasing range of countries, backgrounds and ages. National agencies in Canada, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines and India recruit volunteers from many different countries worldwide. This international approach allows us to combine and learn from a rich variety of perspectives.



In all the countries where we work, VSO is represented by a Programme Office. Staff and volunteers in our Programme Offices work together with local partner agencies, and increasingly with the people whose interests VSO aims to serve, to agree a programme of development priorities in their country and region.