that works with long-term Peruvian and Tanzanian partners as they strengthen health systems and implement construction projects in isolated and marginalised communities in the Amazon and on Lake Victoria.
In addition to supporting these existing programmes, we also work with our partners to create unique learning opportunities and transformative experiences for volunteers.
Our volunteer programmes fall into three categories; medical expeditions, school expeditions and community partnership expeditions.
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We run regular medical expeditions aboard medical ships, enabling volunteers to play a role in providing primary care to isolated communities as part of our in-country medical programmes in Peru and Tanzania.
We coordinate community partnership and school expeditions in Peru and Tanzania, allowing volunteers to actively participate in construction activities under the mentorship of local builders.
Support the development of Vine Trust's life-changing work in Tanzania and Peru. Through the efforts of our Medical, Home-Building and School Expedition teams we are helping to enact real, effective and lasting change to support a more hopeful future for some of the world's most marginalised communities.
Our Christian ethos shapes how we work. We welcome everyone without discrimination regardless of faith, colour, race, sexual orientation, gender or any other distinction
Partnerships and respect are at the core of who we are and how we operate. We develop trusting, transparent and mutually-accountable, long-term partnerships
We care about impact and sustainability in all aspects of our work. We are committed to safeguarding and ensuring that our work does no harm.
We can trace the roots of Vine Trust back to a shop called Branches, which was opened in the 1980s in Bo’ness as a response to the famine in Ethiopia.
This not-for-profit gift shop funded the initial donation for the charity and continues to support Vine Trust to this day.
Since 2001, our in-country medical programmes have provided over 2.5 million consultations for members of isolated communities in the Peruvian Amazon and on Lake Victoria, while our partners Tanzania Women Research Organisation (TAWREF) have built over 140 new homes for vulnerable families.
Vine Trust is built upon the strength of our connections, and we’re hugely grateful to the partners and supporters who have been a major part of our story so far and will continue to help us write it going forwards.