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Key Club International is the high school, student-led organization sponsored by Kiwanis International, which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character, and develop leadership. High school student members of the Key Club perform acts of service in their communities, such as cleaning up parks, collecting clothing, and organizing food drives. They also learn leadership skills by running meetings, planning projects, and holding elected leadership positions at the club, district, and international levels.
Livonia Kiwanis has partnered with local high schools, and many of the values of members of Key Club include:
- To develop initiative and leadership
- To provide experience in living and working together
- To serve the school and community
- To prepare for useful citizenship
- 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 application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship and social contacts
- To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship
- To help students form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and build better communities
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will
Livonia Kiwanis has partnered with local high schools, and many of the values of members of Key Club include:
- To develop initiative and leadership
- To provide experience in living and working together
- To serve the school and community
- To prepare for useful citizenship
- 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 application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship and social contacts
- To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship
- To help students form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and build better communities
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will
Computers for Kids
The Livonia Kiwanis Club gives away brand new laptop computers to deserving Clarenceville High School students annually to aid in their studies at home now and at their future colleges.
The Fernon Feenstra Scholarship Program
Education plays a major role in forging a successful future, and the members of Livonia Kiwanis are very passionate about helping children achieve their educational dreams. We provide several scholarships each year to Livonia high school students who demonstrate a desire to better themselves through education. Read more about this project on www.livoniakiwanis.org/scholarships.
Holiday Gifts
Recently, Livonia Kiwanis has adopted 1-2 families at Christmastime and anonymously provided the children and family with gifts to open up during the holidays. This has been a really enjoyable project for us to involve members in browsing and shopping for items and wrapping them before dropping them off.
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The Livonia Kiwanis is proud to support the Kids Against Hunger project, which provides over one million meals annually to children around the world. Oftentimes, one weekend project can pack over 100,000 meals for distribution. One third of the meals packed in Michigan go to local Michigan food pantries, one third is distributed throughout the United States for disaster-relief support, and one-third is donated to various third-world countries.
Livonia P.T.S.A. Donations
The Livonia Kiwanis sets aside funding in its annual budget to aide select Livonia Public Schools with the purchasing of musical equipment, library books, and learning tools for special needs children.
Livonia Education Foundation Grant Program
The LPS Education Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization chartered by the State of Michigan in 2004. Its goal is to provide additional financial support to the district for innovative programs and services, so the school system can continue to be a “beacon of excellence” to all those it serves. The Livonia Kiwanis has begun to donate funds annually to the grant program, which has been used in the past to support the "Leader in Me" platform at Randolph Elementary or to provide items like internet hotspot devices to families in the community during the Covid-19 pandemic when all learning was done virtually.
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
Our club annually supports the C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital, which is one of the leading children’s hospitals in the United States. Mott Children’s Hospital has treated over 250,000 children, including over 3,500 children in the city of Livonia. Kiwanis support specifically funds the creation of new child life services programs, which has included musical therapy for heart-transplant patients and decorated radiation masks for children in the past.
Kiwanis Youth Bowling League at Merri-Bowl
Our Kiwanis Club sponsors a bowling league for adults and children with special needs. Our volunteers set up the lanes, help the bowlers as needed, and coach and cheer for the bowlers. Our Kiwanis Youth Bowling League project usually runs from October to May, and it is hosted two Saturdays of each month at Merri Bowl (30950 Five Mile Rd, Livonia, MI 48154). To volunteer for this event or learn more, please contact Jerry Kwas at [email protected]
Aktion Club / P.E.P. Center
One of our most rewarding projects is the relationship we have formed with the P.E.P. Center in Livonia, which is dedicated to assisting adults with special needs. The P.E.P. Center has formed an Aktion Club, which allows for special needs adults run by choosing their own leadership, running their meetings, and creating projects to help families and children both in the community and around the world.
And more...
The Kiwanis Club of Livonia Foundation is always looking for new organizations to support and to volunteer with.
We are involved in many other events throughout the community as our Kiwanis motto is "Serving the Children of the World!"
Please contact us if there is a project you would like Kiwanis to support.
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