Where does your money go?
Your money is converted into extraordinary people – VSO volunteers
89c in every euro you give us goes directly to our development work overseas. The other 11c is needed for raising funds and administration costs.
We don’t send food or aid, we send skilled professionals. They have specific roles to fulfill in specific placements in the fight against poverty.
For example…
A small health centre in rural Malawi might need help serving a large population but not have even one doctor.
A VSO volunteer doctor would be placed for one or two years to treat patients hands on, develop the skills of nursing staff, and train medical students in order to grow the next generation of doctors and nurses.
And that’s not all…
Our volunteer doctor might also work with local communities to prevent disease and so ease the burden on the health centre.
What does success look like?
The volunteer’s aim is to leave the health centre without reliance on VSO. That is success, and it is a long process, often taking more than one volunteer and more than one or two years.
A successful model health centre, helped by your donations and our volunteers is one which eventually can function without us:
it can treat its own patients, however poor and remote their family living environment
it runs an outreach facility constantly testing, diagnosing and treating people in their communities
it teaches families and communities how to stay healthy
it provides affordable healthcare for everyone, so all children, babies and vulnerable people can access healthcare
it has improved resources and is able to manage them successfully it has a confident, hard-working staff that stays. Now they are saving lives, are better resourced, better respected and are able to send home happy healthy patients
As well as healthcare, our volunteers deliver education, disability, HIV and AIDS, securing sustainable livelihoods, participation and governance programmes.
