Read the latest news and updates from volunteers, partners, and staff across the moana working collectively towards a world with thriving communities.
Fifty years supporting VSA
21.09.2020 - In the late 1960s, while he was teaching at Queen Victoria School in Fiji, Gavin Kerr helped VSA with a young…
A passion for quality education - Tonga
11.09.2020 - “There is a real passion for quality education in Tonga,” says VSA volunteer Julie Mcllwraith. “Tongan tertiary…
Tongan Language Week / Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e Lea Faka-Tonga 2020 (David Cramp)
07.09.2020 - For Tongan Language Week / Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e Lea Faka-Tonga, we are delighted to give an update about VSA tūao…
Creating special connections in Kūki 'Āirani - Cook Islands
04.09.2020 - Anita Corbett accompanied her husband Bruce on his assignment as a Water Engineer with Office of the Prime…
Bruce Corbett - Resilience in the face of climate change (Cook Islands)
31.08.2020 - As his 65th birthday loomed over the horizon, engineer Bruce Corbett decided it wasn’t time yet to become “a boring…
When assignments change - Wayne Wooff (Vanuatu)
27.08.2020 - Despite everyone’s best efforts, VSA assignments do not always go to plan. Our volunteers often need exceptional…
St Peter Chanel Catholic School of Secondary Teacher Education (Papua New Guinea)
24.08.2020 - Principal Alfred Tivinarlik doesn’t hesitate when asked to describe the VSA volunteers who’ve spent time at the St…
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2020
17.08.2020 - After spending two years in Isabel Province in Solomon Islands, there are so many amazing memories…
International Youth Day 2020 - Lewis Johnson (Solomon Islands)
12.08.2020 - For International Youth Day we are delighted to kōrero with our returned tūao Lewis Johnson who volunteered…
Cook Islands Language Week / Te epetoma o te reo Māori Kuki Airani, [Dahyoung Kim (Dee)]
07.08.2020 - For Cook Islands Language Week / Te epetoma o te reo Māori Kuki Airani, we are delighted to kōrero with our Cook…
Volunteering, chronicling and more - supporting VSA since 1974 (Tonga)
27.07.2020 - Award-winning writer and photographer Neville Peat has been involved with VSA since 1974 – as a volunteer in…
Mary Hammonds on assignment in PNG (1978-79)
27.07.2020 From The VSA Way (1987) Author -Neville Peat
Mary Hammonds, of New Plymouth, worked as a nurse/midwife in…
Developing sustainable tourism through yoga - Solomon Islands
20.07.2020 - The Western Province of the Solomon Islands has rugged natural beauty, proud and friendly people and an incredibly…
Being a farm mechanic on Eua in 1970 - Jim Greenhough (Tonga)
03.07.2020 - In 1970 I was lucky enough, as an 18 year old Nelson farm boy, to be selected as a VSA school leaver volunteer and…
On the path to change in Bougainville - Douglas Hancock
29.06.2020 - After his five months assignment in Bougainville, Douglas Hancock arrived back in New Zealand just in the nick of…
Facing energy and geological resource challenges in the Pacific - Charlie Inggs (Fiji)
25.06.2020 - Developing sources of sustainable and renewable energy is critically important in the Pacific. Most Pacific nations…
“WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE?’ - Ana Terry
16.06.2020 - Ana Terry joined the Learning and Teaching Development team at Otago Polytechnic in August 2018. In conversation…
Vanuatu, a country of remarkable resilience - Trevor Johnston
15.06.2020 - Since VSA’s decision to repatriate all volunteers in Vanuatu on 14 March the events that have unfolded here have…
Outreach in Papua New Guinea - Norah Riddick
11.06.2020 -Seeing a man who had not been able to use his arms for two years regain full independence and training sixteen people…
Hope Bearers - Sabine Huber (Tonga)
08.06.2020 - Sabine was one of the first participants in the VSA Partnering for Good programme. VSA developed this programme in…
