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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…
VMM 50th Anniversary Celebration: Liverpool September 9th!
You Are Invited to VMM’s 50th Anniversary Celebration SAVE the DATE for VMM’s 50th Anniversary Celebration September 9th, at Liverpool Hope University Many, like founder Edwina Gateley, will be travelling from afar to join in the festivities commemorating 50 years of VMM. This is an opportunity to hear her speak…
Volunteering Offers A Unique Insight On Cultures, On Life
Volunteering: Fully Immersed in Your Role, As Well As Your Community In 2018 Melissa Scott was a long-term Volunteer in Chilanga, a small town outside of Lusaka, Zambia, in a community school for orphaned and vulnerable children. Her official title is ‘Teacher Mentor’ but this included covering classes, teaching computer lessons, providing…
Community Outreach: Radio Spreading The Positive Discipline Message
VMM’s Safeguarding and Positive Discipline Programmes and Volunteers in Africa VMM’s Safeguarding and Protection Programme for Children and Vulnerable Adults has been making great strides in protecting the lives of children and vulnerable persons in East Africa, where human trafficking and cases of abuse occur and corporal punishment persists. The…
Showcasing the VMM Short Term Volunteer Programme
VMM Offers Long As Well As Short Term Volunteering Our Short Term Volunteering Programme was established three years ago to run alongside our longstanding Long Term Volunteering Programme. The Long Term Programme is open to those who are committed international development volunteers, as well as retired, established professionals in their…
Volunteering for Humanity: VMM EU Project Partners Meet In Dublin
VMM Joins EU Aid Volunteers Initiative Following on from attending our new EU project kick-off meeting in Brussels in February at the offices of ECHO – The Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, which is the European Commission’s department for overseas humanitarian aid and civil protection –…
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…