Read the latest news and updates from volunteers, partners, and staff across the moana working collectively towards a world with thriving communities.
VSA volunteers over the years
We wish to acknowledge the volunteers and their accompanying partners over the last 60+ years.
COVID Calls for Connection
Volunteer Service Abroad has nine local volunteers working within COVID-19 response groups in Solomon Islands.
Real Economic Benefit
A Cook Island farmer's dream to process kuru breadfruit into flour for local consumption, and to export, is one step closer thanks to help from Volunteer Service Abroad.
Communicating through a storm
Despite the challenges of remote work, Grace Loftus's assignment has given her the opportunity to meet many interesting people living all over the Pacific.
Like Building a Ship at Sea
VSA volunteers and South Africa’s first non-racial, democratic election
60 years of volunteering
VSA President, Dr Simon Mark reflects on the last two decades for VSA.
Fight against COVID-19 in the Solomon Islands
Supporting and enabling volunteering is what VSA knows how to do, and these skills are helping with the COVID-19 outbreak in the…
Pacific Tourism Organisation partners with VSA
2.1.2022 - The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) and Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) are now collaborating to support tourism in…
Getting Tonga’s crops buzzing
Debra Allan never thought she’d become a beekeeper, but that was before her and Uili Lousi’s concerns about climate change and passion for their Pacific home led them to establish OHAI.
Life as an Emergency Doctor
Having worked in Emergency Departments for many years, Dr Mandy Masters is the ideal doctor to be onsite at Northern Provincial Hospital Luganville, developing procedures and training to make the department run efficiently.
Students Abroad
More than a decade and a half from when he first floated the concept with VSA staff and on the eve of his retirement, Otago University Professor, Tony Binns, looks back on the UniVol programme and the hundreds of students it has placed on development assignments abroad.
Growing resilience
VSA volunteer Clint Smythe to develop the Cambodia Melon Growers Association in partnership with global development organisation iDE.
The work before the food is on the plate
With concerns about the potential for an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Samoa, the nation moving into lockdown, and with no veterinarians available to her team in 2019, Volunteer Service Abroad’s assistance came at the perfect time for Principal Biosecurity, Officer Talei Fidow-Moors.
Keeping language alive
Kia orana kōtou te ꞌititangata Kuki ꞌAirāni e noʻo nei ki Aotearoa. Noatu ko ai koe pēra katoa, ki ꞌea koe, e ꞌakamāroꞌiroꞌi tātou ki te araara i tō tātou au reo Māori.
National Volunteer Week 2021
New Zealand Scholarship alumni Liria da Silva is helping to lead innovative approaches to waste management in Timor-Leste.
Cook Island Volunteers
Kia orana kōtou kātoatoa tei runga i te Vaka. No te Moana-nui-o-Kiva tōku ꞌai tūpuna, nō reira ‘e inarere au mei te moana ē tōna au enua.
