VSO Diaspora Volunteering Partnership
Overseas Volunteering
ACT became one of only six partners with the VSO Diaspora Volunteering Initiative. What this means is that ACT will work with the VSO to send out volunteers to Africa on short term postings. The postings will be for durations from 2 weeks to about 6 months depending on the needs in the community and the availability of the volunteers. Typically the volunteers will be skilled persons who themselves may have parents or grand parents who may have emigrated to the UK from abroad. So for example, a UK born citizen with grand parents from the Caribbean will qualify as having roots in Africa. ACT will be looking to send out volunteers to Tanzania from 2008. Please contact the ACT office for more information.