Short Name
AVI
Address Line 1
Room 201-202, Block B4
Address Line 2
Van Phuc Diplomatic Compound
Street - Number and Name
298 Kim Ma Street
District
City
Province – Vietnam
Phone
+84-24-32321452
Fax
Email Address
Contact Person – Vietnam
Ms. Do Thuy Hanh, Regional Admin Officer
Vietnam Website
International Website
International Headquarters
Mission Statement
AVI works to build links and increase cooperation between Austraians and people living in developing communities. An independent, non-government organisation, it conducts a variety of people-centred develpment activites across a diverse range of sectors in some 20 countries throguhout Asia, Agrica and the Pacific as well as in remote Aboriginal communities ithin Australian. AVI believes that international volunteering based on reciprocal learning through commiment, engagement and solidarity contributes to a more peaceful and just world. Interntional volunteers share their knowledge, experiences and skills as they live, work andlearn in response to needs expressed by ocal communities. Australian Volunteers International profides opportunities for Australians to becom volunteers and assists them in sharing the learning from their international experiences. Volunteers are employed by and report to a host institution, government department or other organisation. AVI provides pastoral support to the volunteers and acts as a mediator if work place issues arise which cannot be reselved between the volunteer and the host organisation. The Australian Government's overseas aid program, AusAID provides signigicant support for Australian volunteers who work in a development capacity in Vietnam.
History of operations in Vietnam
Australian Volunteers international (AVI) has been at the forefront of international volunteering for 60 years last year, and has enabled over 9000 Australians to find their place in the world through an opportunity to work in developing communities. During the period from 1985 to 2012 Australian Volunteers International (known until 1999 as Overseas Service Bureau) has placed nearly 400 skilled Australian Volunteers in Vietnam in wide variety of occupations, living in urban, provincial and sometimes very remote communities, including co-sponsored placements under the United Nations Volunteer Programme. A main sectoral focus has been education, primarily English language training, with other placements in media and communications, agriculture, natural resource management and community development. AVI has also managed projects, co-implemented with Vietnamese partners, in English language training, community forestry, animal health and mine action awareness. The spirit of partnership and adventure that motivated those first Australian volunteers 60 years ago continues to inspire AVI's programs.