VSO Business Partnerships  VSO Business Partnerships (VBP) is a program that enables partner companies to release their employees to take assignments (six to twelve months) with VSO. Business Partnerships volunteers utilize their business and management skills to assist organizations and communities throughout the developing world.
In the true spirit of partnership, VBP brings benefits to all those involved in the program.
- Organizations in developing countries gain access to crucial business skills that can act as an engine for sustainable growth - we believe this is one of the most effective solutions to global poverty.
- VSO Business Partnerships volunteers gain a rewarding professional development experience that allows them develop a wide range of skills while making a real difference where the need is greatest.
- For partner companies, VBP helps develop and retain a highly innovative and adaptable workforce with a strong understanding of other cultures.
If you would like more information about how your company can get involved in a business partnership, please contact Heidi Lasi in Ottawa at (613) 234-1364 x.238 or send an email to: .
I have been keeping up with the people I worked with at SWDC and will continue to. I have just learned that a proposal we worked on was approved and that SWDC has already started to get orders from the website we put up. I'm excited that I was involved in such a dynamic and successful organization.
Farhana Ahmed, on secondment from Accenture, was the first North American Volunteer Business Partnerships participant and worked with Stung Treng Women's Development Centre (SWDC) in Cambodia for six months in 2003.
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