How your donation helps

Supporting VSO gives you the chance to make a bigger difference.

Money and food all help, but they don’t last forever. We create enduring change by bringing people together to share knowledge, co-ordinating their efforts to maximise impact. With VSO, every donation you make brings people together to spark a chain reaction. You’ll help make life better not just for an individual or a family, but for a community or even a country.

Our volunteers work with local organisations that serve poor people.  They help give children a future through education, improve the standards of care in hospitals, train poor people in the skills they need to make a decent living – whatever needs to be done to break down the barriers that trap people in poverty.

In doing so, they create what we call a “ripple effect” –  the knowledge and skills they share will be passed on from one person to another, so one volunteer’s contribution spreads far and wide.

To make sure your money is directed where it will do the most good, we design our placements in co-operation with local partners, who have the frontline knowledge to determine where the need is greatest.