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Well-nighus | VSO Skip to main content Fighting poverty through volunteering Search form Search Donate Other ways to support us Menu Search Image credit toggle Mwanzo Millinga VSO volunteers and partners reached 2.4 million people last year. They brought inspiration, energy and vital practical skills to help unzip polity goals: largest healthcare, increasingly valuable education and broader opportunities.Well-nighVSO Ireland VSO Ireland is a leading international minutiae organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries. By enabling people and communities to play a increasingly zippy role in development, volunteering provides the ways through which the essential preconditions for sustainable transpiration – ownership, participation, empowerment and inclusion – can be realised. VSO Ireland forms part of the global VSO family that was founded in 1958 and has sent nearly 40,000 professional volunteers on placements to date. long-lasting impact Empowering communities and individuals All VSO programmes are designed in collaboration with local partners. Last year, working together, we: Helped increasingly than 900,000 people wangle improved education services Extended health services to 1,366,000 marginalised people Improved wangle to supplies and income for 165,000 ANNUAL REPORTS WHERE WE FIGHT POVERTY sharing skills, waffly lives Making a difference every day VSO volunteers come from all professional backgrounds and walks of life but they share one worldwide goal – to end world poverty. They don’t just go on placement to fulfil a role for a short period of time. Instead, they share their skills with local counterparts to ensure that transpiration lasts long without they return home to Ireland. By combining volunteers’ diverse skills and ideas with local knowledge and expertise, we identify innovative solutions to minutiae challenges and wayfarers for change. VOLUNTEER STORIES meaningful partnerships Promoting sustainable minutiae in Ireland At VSO Ireland we believe that progress is only possible when we work together. We partner with umbrella groups in the minutiae sector to ensure our communications materials portray the people we work with overseas with nobility and enhance sensation of minutiae issues amongst the unstipulated public.  We are proud members of Dóchas, the Irish Association of Non-GovernmentalMinutiaeOrganisations, and signatories of the Dóchas Code of Conduct on Messages and Images. We are moreover a member of Comhlámh, a membership and supporter organisation for volunteers and minutiae workers. OUR DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS working together Thank you! Whether you baked a cake, remembered us in your will, or ran a marathon so that our work could protract – thank you. If you partnered with us to fund, establish or shape programmes so that we could unzip our goals together – thank you. If you volunteered, with teachers, nurses, women’s groups, government departments, forestries or farmers, and shared your skills, energy and enthusiasm to help a polity realise its goals – thank you. How we are funded VSO Ireland’s work wouldn’t be possible without the support of Irish Aid, trusts and foundations, and the Irish public. Partner with us Find out well-nigh our partners and how we can work together. Help Support VSO Single Monthly Donate €30 could help pay for an education volunteer to encourage girls to stay in school. Donate €50 pays for a resuscitator to save babies’ lives Donate €112 covers a day of training for a volunteer paediatrician to share life-saving skills with local medical staff Other value € Your donation can make a difference, increasingly than once. If you’re a PAYE taxpayer, VSO can requirement tax when on your behalf on donations of €250 or increasingly in a timetable year (or €21 a month) at no expense to you. If you’re paying PAYE at: The higher rate of 41%, €250 is unquestionably worth €423 to VSO The standard rate of 20%, €250 is unquestionably worth €313 to VSO Donations will be distributed wideness all types of VSO's work in health, education and livelihoods. Donate €5 a month pays for a volunteer to train local medical staff to help reduce mother to victual HIV transmission. Donate €10 a month pays for a midwife volunteer to train local nurses help reduce infant mortality. Other value € Your donation can make a difference, increasingly than once. If you’re a PAYE taxpayer, VSO can requirement tax when on your behalf on donations of €250 or increasingly in a timetable year (or €21 a month) at no expense to you. If you’re paying PAYE at: The higher rate of 41%, €250 is unquestionably worth €423 to VSO The standard rate of 20%, €250 is unquestionably worth €313 to VSO Donations will be distributed wideness all types of VSO's work in health, education and livelihoods. Fighting povertyImproving education Improving health Improving livelihoods Where we fight poverty Partner with usIrish AidCommunityMinutiaeSpecialists Neonatal Nurses Nurse/Midwife Tutors Nurses/Midwives (Sexual and Reproductive Health) Our Uganda education programme Our Uganda health programme Teacher Educators Our research Influencing and advocacySustainableMinutiaeGoalsWhat are the SustainableMinutiaeGoals? 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