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KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL
Kiwanis International was founded January 21, 1915, in Detroit,
Michigan, by Allen Simpson Browne, a Moose lodge organizer, and
Joseph G. Prance, a tailor. Kiwanis is an organization devoted
to the principle of service; to the advancement of individual,
community, and national welfare; and to the strengthening of international
goodwill. Since its found, Kiwanis has expanded into a family
of service clubs that include young European adults (Kiwajuniors),
university and college students (Circle K), high school students
(Key Club), middle and junior high school students (Builders Club),
and elementary school students (K-Kids). Kiwanis-family membership
spans the globe, with more than 600,000 members in more than 13,000
clubs in 79 countries. Kiwanis clubs alone give on average
$70 million and 6.5 million volunteer hours for community service
each year.
Objects
of Kiwanis
The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved
by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Through the succeeding decades, they have remained unchanged.
- To give primacy to the 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 render 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.
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Source: http://www.kiwanis.org/about_kiwanis.html
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