What is Kiwanis?
Kiwanis is a worldwide service organization of men and women emphasizing on helping children. As a group, they can achieve what individuals cannot do alone.
These men and women attend Kiwanis Club meetings for education, fellowship and inspiration. They perform voluntary community service through committees, usually on their own time.
Facts
Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan, January 21, 1915. Today, Kiwanis has 598,560 members, including it's Sponsored Youth. Though Kiwanis serves in countries all around the world, its basic objectives are the same.
The Objectives of Kiwanis International
- TO GIVE PRIMACY to human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
- TO ENCOURAGE the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
- TO PROMOTE the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
- TO DEVELOP by precept and example a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
- TO PROVIDE, through Kiwanis Clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to tender altruistic service, and to build better communities.
- TO COOPERATE in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.