About

History of Tuckahoe Kiwanis 

Tuckahoe Kiwanis was chartered November 29, 1979 and sponsored by the Kiwanis club of Western Henrico. Over the years the club has produced a District Governor, two Lieutenant Governors, and a Key Club Administrator for the Capital District Kiwanis. Tuckahoe Kiwanis has donated tens of thousands of dollars and thousands of service hours to local causes. Currently the club sponsors two Key Clubs at Deep Run and Godwin High schools involving over 500 students, and counts annual peanut sales, a charity golf tournament, and oyster and shrimp feasts among their major events.  

About Kiwanis International 

Founded in 1915, Kiwanis International is a global organization of members dedicated to serving the children of the world. Kiwanis and its family of clubs, including Circle K International for university students, Key Club for students age 14-18, Builders Club for students age 11-14, Kiwanis Kids for students age 6-12 and Aktion Club for adults living with disabilities, dedicate annually more than 18 million service hours to strengthen communities and serve children. The Kiwanis International family comprises nearly 600,000 adult and youth members in 80 countries and geographic areas. For more information about Kiwanis International, please visit www.kiwanis.org. 

From 1994-2002 Kiwanis's a Worldwide Service Project combated iodine deficiencies in developing countries and is now considered on of the must successful public health campaigns of the 20th century. Today Kiwanis has a new worldwide service project to ELIMINATE maternal and neonatal tetanus by raising $110 million to save the lives of 129 million mothers through simple vaccinations. 

Mission: "Serving the children of the world"

Defining statement:Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

Objects: 

• 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.