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Short Term Volunteering | Changing Communities and Lives in Uganda and Surrey
A recently returned VMM Short Term Volunteer has kindly shared with us how her placement has broadened her horizon and rejuvenated her love of, and connection to, community and a higher power. Volunteering can also serve to help work through difficult times: helping by helping others to empower themselves. Brigid-Lucy…
Immersion – Two Short Term Volunteers’ Reflections in Anecdotes | Culture Shock, Volunteering & International Development
The Volunteer Missionary Movement (VMM) matches the best opportunities between our overseas partner organisations’ needs and those of our volunteers through our Long Term (1 year+) Volunteer Programme and Short Term (4 weeks to 6 months) Volunteer Programme. We have been placing volunteers to serve, learn and share with marginalised…
Short Term Volunteering is an Exchange: Sharing, Learning and Reflecting in a New Community
VMM Short Term Volunteering: A Memorable and Addictive Experience Noel and Eileen Ryall, a couple from Midleton in Cork, have returned from their short term volunteering placement with the Justice and Mercy Community in Oyugis, southern Kenya. One of VMM International’s partner organisations, over the last twenty-five years JAM has…
VMM Winter Newsletter 2019
VMM Winter 2019 See our exciting update of volunteers working in projects making an impact in Africa. Our recent quarterly newsletter features journeys of short term volunteers and ongoing work with partners. Stay tuned for our Christmas Appeal coming soon!
VMM AGM Tuesday 17th December
AGM Set for Tuesday 17th December The VMM AGM will be held 17th December beginning at 10.30am at Liverpool Hope University. For additional information, email . To renew your membership, click on the link to download and complete your membership form. Get Involved Become a Member of the VMM Board of…
News From the VMM 50th Anniversary Celebration in Liverpool
Earlier this month returned VMM volunteers from all over the UK and Ireland, and as far away as Malta and the USA, gathered in Liverpool Hope University to celebrate 50 years of the Volunteer Missionary Movement. They were joined by VMM founder Edwina Gateley in celebrating all of the 3,000+…
VMM Short Term Volunteering with RCRA in Uganda: Rewarding and Impactful
Short Term Volunteering Building Lasting Personal Connections and Context Between Communities in Global North and South VMM partner organisation RCRA (Rwenzori Centre for Research and Advocacy) run a number of community development, educational health projects in Kasese, a rapidly growing district in Western Uganda close to the Congolese border. RCRA…
VMM UK Office to Continue Work of Irish Office
It’s with deep regret that that the Board of Directors of VMM International, an Irish-incorporated charity, has decided that the company should be wound up in accordance with its Constitution, in a timely and orderly fashion. This follows a meeting of the trustees in Dublin in July of this year.…