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Strong communities<br />
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TE TUAO TAWAHI VOLUNTEER SERVICE ABROAD <br />
Te-na- koutou o<br />
Te Tu-ao Ta-wa-hi<br />
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Volunteer Service Abroad<br />
promotes international<br />
volunteering for development,<br />
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VSAS TOP 10<br />
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SUPPORT CHART<br />
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There are so many ways you can support VSA.<br />
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volunteers and the communities they work with can<br />
continue to provide<br />
CONVSATION<br />
CALL TO ACTION<br />
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Sixteen hundred New Zealanders signed<br />
up for the Global Poverty Project during its<br />
launch in this country in late August and<br />
VSA joined the Australian-driven campaign<br />
to st<a title="Vista page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=1"> the volunteer view on international development </a> Strong communities – Strong people - - - TE TUAO TAWAHI VOLUNTEER SERVICE ABROAD
<a title="Vista page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=2"> Te-na- koutou o Te Tu-ao Ta-wa-hi Volun</a>teer Service Abroad promotes international volunteering for development, linking New Zealanders with people working to create positiv
<a title="Vista page 3" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=3"> VSAS TOP 10 ’ SUPPORT CHART There are so m</a>any ways you can support VSA. Choose from our top 10 and with your help our volunteers and the communities they work with can continue to provide
<a title="Vista page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=4"> CONVSATION CALL TO ACTION Sixteen hundred New Ze</a>alanders signed up for the Global Poverty Project during its launch in this country in late August and VSA joined the Australian-driven campaign to st
<a title="Vista page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=5"> BOOKS & BYTES Blood River – A Journey to Africa’s</a> Broken Heart The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a little talked about place, yet it is an exceedingly vast country with a deeply troubled past.
<a title="Vista page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=6"> FROM THE FIELD A good life gets better A wate</a>r and sanitation programme in a remote village in Papua New Guinea took organisation and hard work from the villagers and a combination of skills and
<a title="Vista page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=7"> FROM THE FIELD F ellow VSA vol</a>unteer Tansy Bliss travelled to Minda A young mother with her small child in her arms descends from before the sanitation
<a title="Vista page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=8"> PHOTO ESSAY It’s all in the balance “ f r </a> t t t t t r y l t lif y l r . Jacques Coustea We o ge ha
<a title="Vista page 9" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=9"> PHOTO ESSAY Opposite top:</a> Kim Hill with Tom Broughton and Zadok Kitomari. This page clockwise from top left: Display grass. Tom with Goodluck and Neema Lucas. Ndetaniswa Kitom
<a title="Vista page 10" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=10"> THE PEOPLE WE WORK WITH When Social </a>Worker Frances Forsey first read her assignment objectives she never thought that the focus of her time on the Eastern Cape of South Africa would be d
<a title="Vista page 11" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=11"> THE PEOPLE WE WORK WITH Replenishing fisheries </a>Conservation can sometimes be seen as a luxury by developing countries facing huge demands on their resources. However, in the province of Binh Dinh i
<a title="Vista page 12" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=12"> THE PEOPLE WE WORK WITH The fish release progra</a>mme only includes fish reared in nearby fish ponds, mostly carps of various species, but unfortunately valuable eels can’t be reared in this way.
<a title="Vista page 13" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=13"> THE PEOPLE WE WORK WITH after Conflict How do you</a> judge how far a community has progressed with rebuilding after conflict shreds the fabric of life? That’s the challenge that the Autonomous Bougainvi
<a title="Vista page 14" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=14"> THE VSA WAY JUST ANOTHER DAY … For school projec</a>t development officers Bruce and Gwen Levick, ‘out of the office’ takes on a whole new meaning when they go 30 kilometres offshore from the island of
<a title="Vista page 15" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=15"> GROWING SUPPORT Sow ng he seeds or change n ru</a>ra Cambod a i t f i l i In the words of VSA CEO Deborah Snelson, “coumrmpuanrtintiersolriegantit
<a title="Vista page 16" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=16"> VSA how can you be involved? Become a volunteer .</a>.. Share your skills in a developing country and get the experience of a lifetime back!Become an addventurer ... Small group responsible tourism that
<a title="Vista page 17" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=17"> - - - TE TUAO TAWAHI VOLUNTEER S</a>ERVICE ABROAD ANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009 Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini My strength is
<a title="Vista page 18" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=18"> A time to step up Over this past year many milli</a>ons of people in the countries where VSA works have had their hard-earned achievements wiped out, had their resilience knocked, and have fallen back i
<a title="Vista page 19" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=19"> vOLUNTEER sERvicE AbROAd iNcORPORATEd sUmmARy sTA</a>TEmENT OF FiNANciAL POsiTiON AS AT 30 JUNE 2009 2009 2008 $ $ Assets Current Assets
<a title="Vista page 20" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=20"> vOLUNTEER sERvicE AbROAd iNcORPORATEd sTATEmENT O</a>F mOvEmENTs iN EqUiTy FOR THE yEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009 2009 2008
<a title="Vista page 21" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=21"> Pacific It’s about building sustainable livelihoo</a>ds. In East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, VSA has developed a cluster of assignments based around sustainable economic development. These assignmen
<a title="Vista page 22" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=gqwpd&pageid=22"> VSA Overseas Volunteers and Partner Organisations</a> 2008-09 Pacific PAPUA NEW GUiNEA Tansy Bliss, Ecotourism Adviser, Mahonia Na Dari Marine Research Centre. Tony Bray, IT Adviser, Kokopo Business Coll
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