Volunteering can be a career investment
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Volunteering can be a career investment

Synonymous with international aid work, VSO reaches many of the world’s poorest countries.Chief executive Mark Goldring talks to Frances Pickersgill

‘Putting something in and getting something out’ are words often associated with VSO, the international volunteering charity. According to chief executive Mark Goldring, that is a consequence of VSO’s unique mission to invest volunteer skills and expertise long term in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Nursing Standard. 22, 7, 70-71. doi: 10.7748/ns2007.10.22.7.70.p4139

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