Australian
Refugee
Volunteers
Help us do something positive. ARV is a 100% volunteer-run not-for-profit improving the lives of children and families from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds in Sydney — through connection, opportunity, and community.
Something
Positive
Australian Refugee Volunteers (ARV) is a 100% volunteer-run not-for-profit organisation based in Sydney, Australia. Their main objective is to improve the lives of children and families from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds.
ARV programs provide essential recreational and developmental opportunities for children, families, and adults which ease loneliness and isolation and improve physical and mental health. Every gift of $40 helps another youth participate in new experiences and form stronger friendships.
ARV improves the lives of children and families from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds — providing essential recreational and developmental opportunities that ease loneliness and isolation.
ARV runs monthly excursions for children and teens — a mix of fun and developmental activities that give kids skills and confidence while letting them just be kids for the day.
Fun, Flexible & Life-Changing
Refugee & Asylum Seeker Families
ARV improves the lives of children and families from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds — providing essential recreational and developmental opportunities that ease loneliness and isolation.
Fun Monthly Excursions
ARV runs monthly excursions for children and teens — a mix of fun and developmental activities that give kids skills and confidence while letting them just be kids for the day.
Physical & Mental Wellbeing
Programs are designed to improve physical and mental health, build friendships, and reduce isolation — addressing the real human cost of the refugee experience.
Community of Volunteers
Volunteers collect children, bring them together as a program group for the activity, and drop them home safely. The community spirit is what keeps ARV running.
How SYS & ARV
Work Together
The clothes and household items in your storage unit can help a refugee family feel at home in Australia.
SYS Clears Your Unit
We sort through your storage unit identifying children's items, clothing, sporting gear, toys, games, books, and household goods suitable for families.
Items Are Prepared
Clothing, kids' equipment, and family essentials are assessed and set aside for handover to ARV's volunteer network in Sydney.
ARV Distributes
Items reach refugee and asylum seeker families and children through ARV's trusted programs — directly supporting the people who need it most.
A Family Feels Welcome
A child gets a warm jacket or a bag of toys. A family gets practical support in a new country. Your storage unit just helped someone feel at home.
Kids Being Kids
“Help us do something positive. ARV programs provide essential recreational and developmental opportunities which ease loneliness and isolation and improve physical and mental health.”
Clear your unit.
Welcome someone home.
Clothing, kids' gear, sporting equipment, and household items stored in your unit could go directly to refugee and asylum seeker families in Sydney through ARV's volunteer network.
