Galleries

Training midwives in Sierra Leone

VSO volunteer Alice Waterman worked at the Masuba School of Midwifery in Makeni, Sierra Leone, for two years. She taught Sierra Leonean student midwives simple life-saving skills to prevent unnecessary deaths in the labour room.

View our Sierra Leone gallery.

Changing lives in Ethiopia

VSO volunteer Catherine Mahoney worked as a fundraising adviser for a forum of non-governmental organisations in Hawassa, Ethiopia. Take a look at some of the organisations that have benefitted from Catherine's time in Ethiopia.

View our Ethiopia gallery. 

Malaria prevention in Uganda

VSO nurse Pam Llewellyn worked in Miirya, Uganda. She trained village volunteers in malaria prevention so that they can help their communities to combat the disease.

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Hope Ward, Uganda

Chest physician Richard Feinmann volunteered with VSO in Uganda, where life expectancy is just 51 and over a third of the population live in poverty. He was based at the Hope Ward, the charity wing of the International Hospital Kampala.

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Education in Zanzibar

Working alongside local colleagues, VSO volunteer Daphne Sharp helped to ensure that all children in Zanzibar receive a good basic education, whether that's in a brightly decorated classroom with an animated teacher or under a tree with a wind up radio.

View our Zanzibar gallery. 

Working to empower women

Women are the world's greatest untapped resource for development. Healthy, educated, empowered women generate money for their communities and bring up children who survive and thrive. But discrimination still holds back millions of women, preventing them from fulfilling their potential. VSO volunteers are working to change this.

View our International Women's Day gallery