About Kiwanis

The Kiwanis Motto

"Serving the Children of the World"

Over 300, 000 men and women from around the world have found that Kiwanis provides business networking opportunities and the friends to make life a more fulfilling experience. Today there are some 10,000 Kiwanians, drawn from all walks of life in Canada and about 8,500 Clubs around the world.

The first Kiwanis Club was organized in 1915 with the aim of community involvement and service. In 1916 and 1917, the Kiwanis Clubs of Hamilton and Toronto were chartered.

Kiwanis is a worldwide service organization having a keen sense of responsibility toward their communities, countries and people everywhere. They know that as a group they can achieve far more than as individuals working alone.

Each Kiwanis Club has a mandate to impact its own community; as well as the opportunity to engage in coordinated global initiatives such as the completed World Wide Service Project to eliminate Iodine Deficiency Disorders in partnership with UNICEF.

The goals and objectives of the Kiwanis has remained constant for the last 85 years, and as the organization developed and the world changed, the opportunities to provide service have diversified also 

To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of lifeTo encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationshipsTo promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standardsTo develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenshipTo provide, through Kiwanis Clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communitiesTo cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will