Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) replaces VSO

Nov 22, 2012 News

By Latoya Giles

Dr Roger Luncheon has said that Government has decided to part ways with the Volunteer Services Overseas group. He made the disclosure yesterday at his weekly press briefing. According to Dr Luncheon, the VSO had informed Government that it will no longer operate in Guyana.
At the same time Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO International) opted to replace the British operation. Dr Luncheon explained that the agreement with VSO was between Guyana and Britain.
He said that over the years volunteers from Britain were assigned to Guyana with different fields. Dr Luncheon noted that CUSO is a parallel organization with the same aim and objection as VSO, with the provision of the same skills.
Each year, CUSO International would send hundreds of volunteers to work on collaborative development projects in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
CUSO International (formerly CUSO-VSO) was created in 2008 from the merger of two development agencies. CUSO was founded in 1961, originally as Canadian University Service Overseas. Voluntary Service Overseas Canada started in 1995. Combined, they placed some 15,000 volunteers in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.
CUSO International is the North American strategic alliance partner of VSO, a worldwide federation of voluntary service overseas organizations based in the UK, the Netherlands, Kenya and the Philippines. Volunteers are also recruited from the United States (through CUSO), India (IVO), Ireland (VSO Ireland), Uganda (VSO Jitolee) and Australia (AVI), and from several developing countries with VSO programmes. Approximately one-quarter of CUSO and VSO volunteers are from the developing world.
These VSO agencies make up the world’s largest non-governmental development network that works through volunteers. Collectively, the members of VSO International have placed over 45,000 volunteers since 1958.
CUSO International volunteers come from many professional and personal backgrounds, from many ages, and from across Canada and the United States as well as from many of the Southern countries in which they work.
Through its own programmes and as a strategic partner of VSO, CUSO works with developing world organizations and governments to identify areas of greatest need. Volunteers work with overseas partner groups on locally and nationally managed projects.
This way, the benefits of their work continue to be felt by local people long after the volunteers have passed on their skills and returned home.

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