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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.…
1969 – 2019: VMM’s Enduring Mission with the Diocese of Lodwar, Turkana, Kenya
VMM Volunteers Helping to Bring Services to a Forgotten Land In Turkana county, north western Kenya, since the early days of the Diocese of Lodwar, VMM volunteers have been at the heart of implementing health and educational services and empowering vulnerable members of the community to improve their prospects,…
VMM Safeguarding & Protection Programme Initiates New Child Rights Clubs in Kenya
Child Rights & Responsibilities Clubs Empowering Children In July, VMM International Child and Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding and Protection Manager, Lucy Monari, travelled from Nairobi to join Project Assistant, Dalmas Obora, in Kitale, Kenya, to hold a teachers’ workshop with the aim of initiating Child Rights and Responsibility Clubs in schools…
‘Too Hot to Handle’: An Extract from the ‘VMM Stories’ Book
Sally Graham went as a volunteer maternity nurse with VMM to Uganda, in 1986. For VMM’s 50th Anniversary celebration in Dublin last September, she wrote for the book ‘VMM Stories’ of her experiences in such trying circumstances; of the nerve, resolve and cool heads required when you arrive just as…
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…
Volunteering as a Couple: for Community and the Sustainable Development Goals
A Couple in a JAM Are Called on to Volunteer across Multiple SDGs The Justice and Mercy Community in Oyugis, southern Kenya, is a community development organisation which has grown from a small seed over the last twenty-five years to offer a range of health, education and livelihoods services and…