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Kiwanis is a global
organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world
one child and one community at a time.--Kiwanis
defining statement, adopted October 2004.
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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