Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Sierra Leone

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO's high-impact approach involves bringing people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action, and change lives to make the world a fairer place.

In Sierra Leone, the Ebola crisis that began in 2014 forced businesses to close and caused essential services to be stretched and suspended. Then in August 2017, the country was again devastated by another disaster – a mudslide – that claimed over 500 lives and over 6,000 families displaced from their communities and living in temporary shelters.

These crises have had a devastating impact on everything from livelihoods to maternal and infant mortality – and VSO has been working to strengthen infrastructure and services ever since.