What is Kiwanis?


DEFINING STATEMENT
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.

THE OBJECTS OF KIWANIS
Object 1: To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
Object 2: To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
Object 3: To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
Object 4: To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
Object 5: To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
Object 6: 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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