Volunteers for Educational Support & Learning
An important announcement regarding the future of VESL’s volunteer programme from Ian Livingstone, VESL’s CEO. Some of you may already be aware that Lauren Pluss, our Programme Manager and sole
Storify by vesl Thu, Jan 30 2014 12:43:08 What was your VESL moment? We asked our past volunteers to share their #VESLmoments with us and these are the responses we
Our volunteer, Bob, who is currently in Sri Lanka applied to the Wild Fund for money to create English signs to go around the school he is volunteering in. It
2013 has been a busy year here at VESL, we sent our highest ever number of volunteers overseas and we are continuing to see an increase in demand for our
December 5th is the UN’s International Volunteer Day… This is a great opportunity for all of our volunteers to remember the challenging and valued work they were involved in (or
The New Year is fast approaching and with that comes a new round of Careers, Volunteering & Refreshers fairs that we will be visiting! We will be making our way
We have recruited a new team of enthusiastic Student Leaders for 2013/14 who will be leading teams to Thailand & India this summer, drawing on their past experiences to help
We have officially started recruiting for our 2014 projects in Thailand and India! So if you’ve been following all the excellent blogs written by our volunteers this summer and want
The season of returning to university, freshers weeks and careers fairs is upon us once again, where has the last year gone?! So we will be making our way to
We are excited to announce a new project in India that we will be running next April – June in Kerala. This project is working alongside VESS, our partner NGO
This Saturday 12 of our volunteers are running an English for Integrated Studies (EIS) Camp with two or our Student Leaders, Andrew and Fran, and our Programme Manager at a
It’s that time of year again when we make our way overseas to visit our projects in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, visiting our Country Managers and our volunteers who
In response to today’s BBC News article on volunteering overseas, we’d like to stress that nothing about volunteering with VESL is ‘voluntourism’… it’s challenging work, and of real and measurable
Ingrid Masters volunteered in Kerala from January to March 2013, while she was there she used funding from the VESL Wild Fund and a personal donation to help improve sanitation and hygiene