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Senior Community: Spending Time with Your Elders
When you begin to compare their different interests and energy levels, you would never imagine that children and the elderly would ever have anything in common. Despite this, volunteering with seniors can be an enriching experience for younger generations. Students...
Postdiluvian clean-up: Glentunnel Holiday Park - 5 June 2021
After the big-rain and associated floods, the Christchurch Tramping Club and Wednesday Wombles hooked up with the University of Canterbury's Student Volunteer Army (SVA) to help out affected communities. On this trip, twelve of us went to the Glentunnel Holiday Park,...
📣 Announcing our upcoming SVA App for 2021! 📲✨
We have an important, exciting update for you: in 2021, the SVA Service Award Kaitiakitanga will transition into a new app. This app will allow us to connect with larger numbers of student volunteers more efficiently, capturing their volunteering efforts and hours,...
May Gold Pin Achievers
Congratulations to the following students who have each volunteered 500 hours and earned gold SVA Service Award Pins. Thank you for making such an awesome contribution to your communities! Seini Teaupa, Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist High SchoolUngatea Vea, Auckland...
Student Volunteer Army's COVID-19 Response & Pandemic Volunteering
As we progress through the pandemic, we will keep this blog updated with relevant ideas for volunteering. If you're at school, or not, you can still volunteer and log your hours on the Service Award platform. Here are some ideas to get you started: 1. Help people who...
How can you help end racism?
Salam alaikum, Volunteering tends to be focused on environmental action as it’s easiest to do - however, this often means more complex issues like overcoming racism get left behind. As we approach the first anniversary of the Mosque Attacks in Christchurch, it is...
February Gold Pin Achievers
Congratulations to the following students who have each volunteered 500 hours and earned gold SVA Service Award Pins. Thank you for making such an awesome contribution to your communities! Alexandra Banks, Christchurch Girls' High School - Te Kura o Hine Waiora Danil...
Catch up with the Club: what’s on for Semester 1?
Summer is drawing to a close, and we know what that means; a new semester for the Student Volunteer Army at the University of Canterbury! I caught up with the Events team to find out how their first week has gone and hear all about what they’ve got planned for the...
December Gold Pin Achievers
Congratulations to the following students who have each volunteered 500 hours and earned gold SVA Service Award Pins. Thank you for making such an awesome contribution to your communities! Alyssa Rose Morris, Rangitikei College Luke Mackey, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu...
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