Voluntarily formed by all the volunteers and volunteer groups in the city, Suzhou Volunteers Association is a joint non-profitable organization with the status of a social organization as legal person, responsible for local charity and volunteer programmes. The association works in accordance with the guidance of the Steering Office of Suzhou Municipal Committee for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization.
Suzhou Volunteers Association, guided by the tenet of “serving volunteers, serving volunteer groups, serving the society,” aims to “build a home for volunteers, bring voluntary services to those in need of them, and integrate social efforts for voluntary work.” SVA advocates and spreads the spirit of volunteers with a focus on “devotion, friendship, mutual help and progress”. The service system for volunteers will be vigorously improved. The Association arranges voluntary work extensively and push forward routine and ongoing voluntary work mechanism so as to further enhance Suzhou people’s quality and thus the level of civilization of the city.
Suzhou Volunteers Association, with 63 member units, has set up the first 26 practice bases and 203 community-level volunteer service stations. The Association runs 22 service projects and has 27 voluntary groups offering specialized services. It consists of the publicity department, the information and network department, the training department and the organization department. So far SVA has actively engaged in planning and publicizing grand voluntary service events and adopted the digital platform “Suzhou Intelligent Cloud Platform for Volunteer Services” for its administrative work. Moreover, a series of mechanisms for the recruitment of individual volunteers and voluntary groups, training work, assessment, reward giving and punishment have been employed as well. All these efforts are made to advance the standardization of voluntary work and promote the steady and efficient operation of all voluntary groups and their projects so that SVA can help to build a better and more civil society for Suzhou.
Tele: 65220445
Address: No. 58 Gongyuan Road, Gusu District, Suzhou
Postal code: 215005
E-mail address: szzyzzh@126.com
