Category Archives: News and Media

Find News and Press Releases about VMM’s international development and volunteer projects in the field, stories from our membership base, plus our latest vacancies.

This is where VMM International members can keep up with the latest updates on our ongoing projects. We are blessed that our volunteers often write these as first-hand blog posts of their own personal experiences and insights, which they are happy to share with us.

It is also a place where our partner organisations can connect with our membership base in Ireland and the UK and keep up to date with the whereabouts and news of volunteers they have known from time shared on their own projects. It is the archive of our story and the connective thread at the hearth of the VMM International family.

Short-term volunteer projects offer variety

16th October 2015 6th January 2016

VMM’s short term programme is launching this year programmes beginning in Uganda and Malawi. Current project leaders have been busy organising projects with overseas partners to begin as soon as November. Additional projects will begin in early 2016. The new initiative will allow volunteers of all ages to work directly alongside…

Progress at teachers college in Uganda

25th October 2015 25th February 2019

A Blog from volunteers Sally and Keith in Uganda (Sally and Keith are tutors at Canon Apolo Teachers College in Ft Portal) The wet season is now in full force with the usual pattern of sun in the morning then about 2pm the heavens open for a few hours or…

Mission Tracks – a new beginning

12th January 2016 8th March 2016

Imagine a world where we live in the shelter of one another, a world where we share who we are and not just what we have. VMM’s new CEO, John Denny writes in VMM’s Newsletter about the organisation’s new strategic plan and how VMM’s values and behaviours are fundamental to…

Kenya risks US sanctions for failing to stem human trafficking

24th October 2015 15th December 2015

Human Trafficking – The Current Situation As defined by the United Nations, human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or…

Global Citizens Award. What’s it all about?

16th October 2015 15th December 2015

The Global Citizen Award is a personal development award that enables you to share your overseas volunteering experiences and help raise awareness of global issues in Ireland. The Award is free and open to all returned international volunteers. It offers you an opportunity to take what you have experienced overseas and…