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Open role: WASH Programme Manager (Guinea-Bissau)
Water and Sanitation Programme Manager (Guinea-Bissau) Overview VMM’s partner organisation (wellfound.org.uk) is a not-for-profit international charity providing water, sanitation and health programmes in West Africa. Since 2005, WellFound has worked in 88 villages providing clean water for over 90,000 people. WellFound works in the remotest villages, which are often not…
Open Role: VMM Financial Controller (Dublin)
Overview VMM International are seeking an experienced Financial Controller to oversee our finance management and support our programme team. You will provide integrated financial support to all of VMM’s funded contracts. The post holder will provide support to the end to end programme cycle management, from pre-positioning with partners, proposal…
April 17th 1969: VMM Celebrates 50 Years of Volunteering with Mission
Volunteer Missionary Movement Founded 1969: Establishing Lay Mission Volunteer Training & Support It all began in 1968, when a young, inspired, school-teacher, who had set off on her own initiative to volunteer in Uganda in 1964, returned to England with the realisation that, just as the missionaries who had long…
‘Volunteering for Humanity’: VMM’s new EU Aid Volunteer Project
VMM Joins the EU Aid Volunteers Initiative In January 2019 VMM embarked on a new technical assistance and capacity development project – ‘Volunteering for Humanity’, funded by the EU Aid Volunteer Initiative. With our 50 years of experience, sending 3,000 professional volunteers to partner organisations’ projects overseas, VMM will lead…
Sandra Villegas and Mother Mary Kevin, Volunteers with Mission
Building Long Term Impacts in Communities across Uganda Sandra Villegas is a prime example of the VMM volunteer ethos, why we do what we do, and why we love it. She has been with VMM since 2012, volunteering her services as a Development Officer with our partner organisation, the Little…
Parish Appeals, and So Does Volunteering
It’s The People That You Meet In Your Neighbourhood Since returning from my placement with VMM in Uganda in 2017, I have over the past two years had the opportunity to assist VMM with some Parish Appeals. Initially when asked, I must confess, I was somewhat reluctant; being a member…
Open Role: VMM Digital Marketing & Communications Manager (Dublin)
Overview VMM International is looking for a Digital Marketing and Communications Manager for an EU-funded consortium project “EU Aid Volunteers – Volunteering for Humanity”. The project involves technical assistance and capacity development of VMM International and 3 European volunteer sending organisations. The Organisation VMM International has 50 years of work in…
Early Days: An Extract from the Book ‘VMM Stories’
In this, VMM’s 50th anniversary year, we will be serialising some of the personal insights and tales of adventure from volunteers over the years, which have been captured in the ‘VMM Stories’ book, launched at our commemorative, Gala dinner in Dublin last September. A second commemorative event is due in September this year, in Liverpool, with more information to follow. In the…
The Power of a Short Term Volunteering Experience
Margaret Fitzpatrick volunteered with VMM on our short term programme in late 2018 as a nursery nurse in Uganda. Here, in her own words, follows the story of how she came to join VMM and the experiences she had on her placement which guided her journey to committing to the…