The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Aotearoa New Zealand | Hillary Award Programme is part of a world wide network which provides young people with a balanced, non-competitive programme of individual challenge through which they can make constructive use of their leisure time. The Award Programme provides a framework for personal discovery and growth through Service, Skills, Physical Recreation and Adventurous Journeys; developing perseverance, responsibility to self and to the community. Individuals or organisations can use this framework, with its three levels, to provide individual challenge and achievement for young people between the ages of 14 and 24