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Project Friendship

Each August people across New Zealand buy colourful hand-woven friendship bracelets to support the work of VSA volunteers in developing countries. In 2013 Project Friendship will take place from 12-18 August.

Project Friendship is VSA’s biggest annual fundraiser and the only one that focuses specifically on youth. 12-18 August is Project Friendship week and schools, The Body Shop, Four Square and Girl Guides around New Zealand will be showing their support by selling and wearing our colourful $3 friendship bracelets. This year as well as purchasing our bracelets you can also Dress Up for Change!

Dress Up For Change

Dress Up for Change is a fun new addition to VSA’s Project Friendship. We’re still selling our popular, hand-woven friendship bracelets, but this year we’re also inviting you to dress up in your favourite costume and raise money to help change the lives of young people in the Pacific.

Spend a day during Project Friendship Week in costume. You could dress up individually or how about dressing up with your classmates as a team? Whatever you decide, we suggest you charge $2 for everyone who takes part.

All the money you raise will be used to support the work of VSA volunteers working with young people in the Pacific.

Registration

Use the form at the bottom of this page to register for Project Friendship 2013 or email info@vsa.org.nz with the subject line "Project Friendship".

Our bloggers

Each year some of our super cool VSA volunteers write blogs about what they're doing on assignment (and some of what they do on the weekends, including everything from hip-hop dance-offs to diving with turtles). Watch this space to see who'll be telling you all about how they're working with young people around the Pacific and Timor-Leste.

Register for VSA Project Friendship 2013

School or Group Name*

Adult contact details:

First Name*

Last Name*

Email*

School or Group Address:

Address Ln1*

Address Ln2

Suburb/City*

Postcode*

Phone Number*

Student contact details (if applicable):

First Name

Last Name

Order details:

Please select the quantity of VSA Friendship bracelets you would like to order

We know it's not always possible to order the right amount, but it saves us a lot of time with returns if you can.

Dress up for Change:

Yes, we would like to Dress up for Change.

These are the volunteer activities we plan to do to support VSA:

Request a speaker:

Yes, we would like to find out if there is a VSA volunteer speaker in our area.

Please indicate day and time for speaker during Project Friendship week (6-12 August)

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Time of day

Please note, although we prefer to have speakers at your school during Project Friendship week, you can still request a speaker before or after the week if the above days are unsuitable.

Additional resources

VSA Project Friendship and schools

VSA Project Friendship and GirlGuiding NZ

Win an iPad2

Fundraise for VSA and send in a photo of your Dress up for Change outfit by September 30th to be in to win.