2024 Award Winners

Ka pai tō mahi to all you awesome World Vision 40 Hour Challenge 2024 Award winners!

Thank you for your hard mahi to help regreen our future!


Thank you to every single person, team, school, church and workplace who participated in this year's World Vision 40 Hour Challenge. These awards recognise people and schools who showed next-level compassion, drive and creativity in their efforts to stand with frontline communities and fight the impacts of climate change.

NATIONAL AWARDS

Te Manawa, Big Hearted Award

For embodying a heart for justice through the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge.

  • Oscar Hayhow, Rosehill College

Spirit of Dulcie Award

 For going above and beyond to display the values of selflessness, humility, leadership and generosity.

  • James Watson, Mount Aspiring College

Auahatanga, Most Creative Award - Winners

 For showing a spirit of creativity and courage in this year's World Vision 40 Hour Challenge, by public vote.

  • Tawa College, Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Survivor
  • James + Jessica, 40 Hours in a cage
  • Wairarapa College, 40 Hour Challenge Fundraising Concert

Auahatanga, Most Creative Award - Finalists

 Awarded to runners up of Auahatanga, Most Creative Award, People's Choice.

  • Motueka High School Service Captains, 4 new skills in 40 hours
  • Bethlehem College, 20 hours of sport
  • Takapuna Grammar School Prefects, 40km with 40 prefects led by Isla Sweetman
REGIONAL AWARDS

Winners per region – Upper North Island, Lower North Island and South Island.


Kaiwhakahau, Advocacy Award

For showing innovation in spreading the word about the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge.

  • Mt Albert Grammar School
  • Opiki School
  • Mount Aspiring College

Above and Beyond Award

 For going above and beyond to fundraise for the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge, showing tenacity and initiative in their fundraising efforts. Awardees will have exceeded their fundraising goal, and/or have inspired those around them by demonstrating generosity and compassion. 

  • Excellere College
  • Saint Kentigern College
  • Evans Bay Intermediate
  • Aidanfield Christian School

Hapori, Community Engagement Award

 In acknowledgement of the ability of your leaders to inspire and mobilise their wider community.

  • Noah Raikes
  • Longburn Adventist
  • Middleton Grange School

Ngākau Aroha, Compassion Award

 For showing kindness and compassion in your community and beyond in this year's World Vision 40 Hour Challenge.

  • Churchill Park
  • Nga Tawa Diocesan School
  • Hillview Christian School

Educational Partner Award

 For deepening students' understanding of global citizenship through the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge.

  • Pukekohe High School
  • Hadlow Prep
  • Elmgrove School

Isaiah 58 Award

 For making a real difference in the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge and in acknowledgement of your dedication to bringing hope and restoration to the world's most vulnerable children. "and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry, and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday." Isaiah 58:10

  • Church Northwest
  • Cornerstone Christian School
  • St Barnabas Anglican Church, Fendalton

Outstanding World Vision 40 Hour Challenge Organisers Award

 For demonstrating outstanding commitment to inspiring and leading students to become global changemakers.

  • Melissa Powell (Rosehill College)
  • Charlotte Westerhof (Western Heights School)
  • Jeanne Hill (Excellere College)
  • Jaime Smith (Avondale College)
  • Georgia Barlow (MAGS)
  • Mark Robinson and Natalie Stephenson (Saint Kentigern College)
  • Sarah Woodward (Westlake Girls)
  • Jenny Howsam (Kowhai Intermediate School)
  • Kelly Ma and Yunmin Lee (Macleans College)
  • Shane Froud (Elim Christian College - Golflands)
  • Rev Stephen Black and Nicole Coffin (Waikato Diocean School for Girls)
  • Katy Perry (Te Atatu Intermediate School)
  • Rev Peter Rickman (St Pauls Collegiate Hamilton)
  • Michelle Weston (Taupo-nui-a-tia College)
  • Lee Lennox (Hereworth School)
  • David Owen (Tahuna Normal Intermediate School)
  • Steph Ashton (Queens High School)

Outstanding Student Leadership Team Award

 For being an outstanding World Vision 40 Hour Challenge organising student team, displaying teamwork, leadership and collaboration.

  • KingsWay School
  • Laingholm School
  • St Paul's Collegiate (Hamilton)
  • Rosehill College
  • Westlake Girls High School
  • Po Marie Road School
  • Our Lady Star of the Sea School
  • Napier Central School
  • Tahuna Intermediate
  • Cashmere High School

Auahatanga, Most Creative Fundraising Award

 For showing a spirit of creativity and courage in this year's World Vision 40 Hour Challenge.

  • Takapuna Grammar
  • Life FM
  • Taupo-nui-a-tira College
  • Queen's High School

World Vision Whanaungatanga Award

 Celebrating new partnerships in the World Vision Whānau.

  • Te Papapa School
  • Whangarei Boys High School
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

Greatest Individual Impact Award


For creating a significant impact through the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge 2024.


Winners per region:

 Upper North Island

  • Shu Kay Wong, Saint Kentigern College
  • Anna Yap, Kingsway School
  • Yumin Lee, Macleans College
  • Kelly Ma, Macleans College
  • Noah Raikes, Kingsway School
  • Mackenzie, Kingsway School
  • Zoey Booysen, Hamilton Christian School

Lower North Island

  • Rachel and Maya Forty, Wellington High School
  • Rebekah Brown, Wairarapa College
  • Isabelle Tan, PNGHS
  • Scarlet Ward, Napier Central School
  • Samuel Maas, Cornerstone Christian School
  • Kailah Jago, Otaki College
  • Elijah Batlajeri, Cornerstone Christian School
  • Etosha Scarr-Shaw, Wairarapa College
  • Jess Bielski-Jones, Stratford High School
  • Millie Sunderland, Nga Tawa Diocesan School

South Island

  • Dakota Mead, Hillview Christian School
  • Olivia Taylor, Hillview Christian School
  • Malea Marsden, Hillview Christian School
  • Gwilym Jones, Cashmere High School
  • James Watson, Mt Aspiring College
  • Jessica Gould, Mt Aspiring College
  • Titus Beach, Hillview Christian School
  • Sam Cook, Cashmere High School
  • Ana-Liese Taylor, Hillview Christian School
  • Terry O'Connor, Tahuna Normal Intermediate
  • Samuel Ferguson, St Andrew's College



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