By Cerge Remonde - Manila Bulletin
I am all praises for the Kiwanis as I had the most enlightening experience of working with the group, being a former president of the Kiwanis Cebu chapter. My wife, Marit, is also a Kiwanian, being the governor of the Kiwanis South District.
The Kiwanis International, as many of us know, is a global organization of over 260,000 adult member-volunteers in around 8,000 clubs in 96 countries. It encourages service to children and youth using two approaches: To improve the quality of life directly; and the other, to encourage leadership among the youth. This explains why the organization has 7,000 youth clubs with nearly 32,000 youth members all over the world.
The organization helps shelter the homeless, feeds the hungry, mentors the disadvantaged, and cares for the sick. They build schoolrooms and playgrounds, set up livelihood undertakings, conduct medical and dental missions, raise funds for pediatric research, among others.
Read more of the article at the Manila Bulletin website.
Visit Kiwanis.org to know more about the organization.
All comments are moderated. Your comments will not appear here unless approved by the blog owner. Thank you.
