High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is an international development charity that works through experienced volunteers living and working as equals alongside local partners. It is the largest independent (non-governmental) volunteer-sending organization in the world. VSO has offices in the UK, Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, Kenya and the Philippines and a recruiting partner in India; as of December 2004, it has volunteers of 14 different nationalities on placement. Since its founding in 1958 VSO has placed over 42,000 volunteers in over 140 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Latin America.