SVA Service Award
SVA Service Award
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What is the Student Volunteer Army Service Award?
What is the Student Volunteer Army Service Award?
The SVA Service Award is a national framework that recognises the volunteering efforts of Year 7-13 students. Available free to groups or individuals, students are awarded a pin for initial volunteering hours and log additional efforts online or on the SVA App. School, community and in-home volunteering all qualify and are combined into a single record of service.
The Service Award follows the model of Log. Earn. Build. Use.
Students Log hours using the SVA App or website. They Earn pins when the reach volunteering hour milestones. Build a Summary of Service to Use in their university/job/student leadership applications.
SVA Pins
SVA Pins
Students earn their pins as they log their hours. Pins get sent out every month (on the 20th day).
Top Volunteer is the prestigious award given out annually to one student at each school participating in the SVA Service Award.
Top Volunteer recognises the contribution of that student throughout the school year and identifies them as leader within school community. The award goes to the student who has logged the most volunteering hours within the school year.
Massey High School will have one top volunteer.
SVA Summary of Service
SVA Summary of Service
As hours are logged, students start to build a record of their service. The Service Record includes the details of each logged event, total hours, dates of pins achieved and hours contributed toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Students can use their Service Records to support things like:
Student Leadership applications
University/Halls of Residence applications
Job applications
The skills you learn from your volunteering experience and formal record of your volunteering hours (through the Summary of Service) will set you apart from others when it comes to applying for student leadership roles and job applications.
Who are the Student Volunteer Army?
Who are the Student Volunteer Army?
How SVA was formed
How SVA was formed
Christchurch was struck with a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on the 4th of September 2010. In response to this natural disaster, University of Canterbury student, Sam Johnson, created a Facebook group called the ‘Student Base for Earthquake Clean Up’ to assist local residents with non life-saving tasks. Sam and leaders of several UC clubs joined and together formed the ‘Student Volunteer Army’ as a collective movement of 11,000 people to help clean up the city.
The following year, on the 22nd of February 2011, Christchurch was struck again with a 6.3 magnitude earthquake devastating the city. The Student Volunteer Army were again mobilised to help with the clean up.
Post Earthquake
Post Earthquake
Student Volunteer Army became an official club at the University of Canterbury in 2011 and continued to be the largest club on campus in the years following.
In the years post earthquakes, SVA has been focused on providing disaster relief responses in Aotearoa. Their expertise was also shared with some international disasters such as the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, where founder Sam Johnson and Jason Pemberton travelled to help set up a Japanese version of SVA.
Student Volunteer Army Today
Student Volunteer Army Today
Today, the Student Volunteer Army continues to run as a successful club at multiple universities around the country. Each year students organise over 50 local projects that engage 3000 students at the University of Canterbury.
Student Volunteer Army was formed as a charitable trust which has been continually led by a student executive and guided by a board of trustees.
The SVA Foundation formed as an education charity run for students, by students, focused on providing meaningful volunteering opportunities for primary, secondary and tertiary aged young people in Aotearoa.
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