Voluntary Service Overseas

VSO
Formation	1958
Founders	Alec and Mora Dickson
Type	International development charity
Location	Worldwide;
Volunteers	80,000
Website	www.vsointernational.org

VSO is a not-for-profit international development organization charity with a vision for "a fair world for everyone" and a mission to "create lasting change through volunteering".^[1] VSO delivers development impact^{[clarification needed]} through a blended volunteer model consisting of international, national, and community volunteers working together to develop the systems and conditions for positive social change.^[2] In 2022–23, VSO worked in 35 countries in Africa and Asia.^[3]

VSO currently works in the following core programme areas:

Inclusive Education
Health
Livelihoods

And through three core approaches that are relevant to all the areas:

Social Inclusion and Gender
Social Accountability
Resilience

In addition, VSO has a youth focus in which young people are both the beneficiaries of social change outcomes as well as the primary actors in creating the change.

^ Voluntary Service Overseas. "A fair world for everyone: Annual report and accounts 2018/19" (PDF).
^ Voluntary Service Overseas. "Leave No One Behind: Annual report and accounts 2017/18" (PDF).
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[:0-1] Voluntary Service Overseas. "A fair world for everyone: Annual report and accounts 2018/19" (PDF).

[:1-2] Voluntary Service Overseas. "Leave No One Behind: Annual report and accounts 2017/18" (PDF).

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