DfID gives £3m for VSO diaspora initiative

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 14 March 2008

Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for International Development, has committed £3m to help British people from ethnic minority communities fight poverty in developing countries.

The funding will support and help to develop an initiative run by VSO, which aims to help people from diaspora communities work as volunteers, working to help people in other countries who share the same heritage. “People from diaspora communities are under-represented as volunteers, which is a lost opportunity,” Alexander...

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