Each Executive Board member is responsible for a function of VSO: People, Programmes, Business Development, and Finance. ==History== VSO was founded in 1958 by Alec and Mora Dickson through a bishop's letter to the London paper, The Sunday Times, as an educational experience overseas for school-leavers, initially only male, before starting university.
In 1962, the practice changed to using university graduate volunteers. By 1980, the unskilled volunteers had been completely phased out and the length of service had been extended to two years.
In 1962, the practice changed to using university graduate volunteers. By 1980, the unskilled volunteers had been completely phased out and the length of service had been extended to two years.
Since December 2004, applications to volunteer have been accepted from those between ages 20 and 75, who also must have at least two years' experience in their field. In the early 1990s, in order to meet growing demand for highly specialised and skilled volunteers from its partners in developing countries, VSO established partner agencies in Canada, the Netherlands, Kenya/Uganda (VSO Jitolee), and the Philippines (VSO Bahaginan).
Active volunteer numbers initially dropped to about 750, but by 2003 had returned to about 1,400.
Since December 2004, applications to volunteer have been accepted from those between ages 20 and 75, who also must have at least two years' experience in their field. In the early 1990s, in order to meet growing demand for highly specialised and skilled volunteers from its partners in developing countries, VSO established partner agencies in Canada, the Netherlands, Kenya/Uganda (VSO Jitolee), and the Philippines (VSO Bahaginan).
In 2004, VSO launched a partnership called iVolunteer Overseas (iVO) in India with iVolunteer, an existing volunteering program of MITRA, an Indian NGO.
an Irish volunteer working in Nepal, or a Ugandan volunteer working in Tajikistan). From 2011, VSO led a consortium to deliver the UK government's International Citizen Service programme that provides international volunteer placements for 18- to 25-year-olds.
Its programmes reached 1.4m people in 2017/18 VSO now works in post-crisis situations and has recently responded to disasters in Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines and Sierra Leone.
These agreements permit the Trust to carry out VSO’s work using the VSO trademark. Stichting VSO Netherland, which is a Dutch independent charitable organisation that has agreements with VSO, including a trademark license, and whose accounts were integrated with VSO’s as of April 2018. In March 2018, Voluntary Service Overseas USA, Inc.
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