VMM Volunteers Helping to Bring Services to a Forgotten Land In Turkana county, north western Kenya, since the early days of the Diocese of Lodwar, VMM volunteers have been at the heart of implementing health and educational services and empowering vulnerable members of the community to improve their prospects,…
Child Rights & Responsibilities Clubs Empowering Children In July, VMM International Child and Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding and Protection Manager, Lucy Monari, travelled from Nairobi to join Project Assistant, Dalmas Obora, in Kitale, Kenya, to hold a teachers’ workshop with the aim of initiating Child Rights and Responsibility Clubs in schools…
VMM’s Safeguarding and Positive Discipline Programmes and Volunteers in Africa VMM’s Safeguarding and Protection Programme for Children and Vulnerable Adults has been making great strides in protecting the lives of children and vulnerable persons in East Africa, where human trafficking and cases of abuse occur and corporal punishment persists. The…
VMM International’s Safeguarding & Protection Programme The VMM International Safeguarding & Protection Programme and the work of Safeguarding Manager, Lucy Monari, and Positive Discipline Programme Volunteer, Eilís McDonald, continue to spread and support safeguarding training and activities, creating awareness and protecting the rights of children and vulnerable adults, at community level through our network…
A Shared Insight from a VMM International Volunteer in the Field Joseph Masika Mutunga is a long-term volunteer with the Volunteer Mission Movement. His role, as Management Mentor, is supporting community organisations to strengthen their internal systems at governance, operational and management levels, in order to achieve optimum efficiency and sustainability.…
VMM International’s Safeguarding & Protection Programme Partners in Sierra Leone VMM Volunteer, Jeana Baker is not long back from Sierra Leone, where she spent nearly eight months assessing the needs and current priorities for VMM International’s partners in Sierra Leone. Based on the needs assessments and close interactions with…
VMM International Partner Organisation, HAART, Conference on Human Trafficking HAART, the only agency that solely fights human trafficking in Kenya, was initiated in 2010 and their estimates show that today their awareness campaigns about human trafficking reach an audience of over 100,000 people annually. These campaigns mainly target children, communities and…
VMM International Teacher Training Volunteering VMM International long term volunteer Marian Kearney returned to Malawi last year, a country that she loves, to manage a teacher training, capacity building project with our partner organisation, N4BW (Network For a Better World), in Sitima. Marian was kind enough to share her blog with…