VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) may not strike people as being part of the mainstream of Industrial and Comercial Training in the UK today. However with one foot in the UK where…
Abstract
VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) may not strike people as being part of the mainstream of Industrial and Comercial Training in the UK today. However with one foot in the UK where it recruits and trains its volunteers, and the other in the many countries overseas, its work raises many interesting questions about the use of people as a resource and the links between the human resources of the UK and those in the Third World.
The background to VSO and the ideas behind the way it has developed over the last 25 years were discussed in a previous article. I mentioned the double aim of volunteers passing…
Abstract
The background to VSO and the ideas behind the way it has developed over the last 25 years were discussed in a previous article. I mentioned the double aim of volunteers passing on their skills, and doing so in a spirit of ‘volunteering’. In this second article I would like to look in more detail at the various ways in which this aim is achieved, and the conditions which may limit this and to describe the sort of training which is given to volunteers in the UK before they themselves become trainers overseas.