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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…
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…
VMM Volunteers and Local Staff: Working for Community
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…
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…
VMM International Continuing to Safeguard and Protect Children
VMM International’s Safeguarding & Protection Programme The VMM International Safeguarding & Protection Programme and the work of Safeguarding Manager, Lucy Monari, and Positive Discipline Programme Volunteer, Eilís McDonald, continue to spread and support safeguarding training and activities, creating awareness and protecting the rights of children and vulnerable adults, at community level through our network…
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…