The Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) has not only withdrawn from Guyana but also from Latin America and the Caribbean region as a whole following a ‘Strategic Alliance’ with Cuso International, in an effort to avoid duplicating the services the two organisations offer.
The VSO in a statement which it released after the Sunday Stabroek made contact about its closure of the local office disclosed by Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon, has said that it has transferred ownership of the Guyana programme to Cuso International. It said that Cuso International is one of North America’s largest international organisations sending volunteers, with its head office in Ottawa, Canada.
According to the statement Cuso shares VSO’s vision of a world without poverty and has a joint approach of engaging committed, highly skilled volunteers
