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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Occupational Therapy Community Services in Arusha, Tanzania Salome Mushi is an Occupational Therapist at the Faraja Pallotti Centre in Esso Parish, Arusha, Tanzania. Faraja provides free therapy services for 200 children and 75 adults, plus 30 to 40 service users who attend on a weekly basis, including training sessions for…
