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The Kiwanis Club of Victoria has been providing services to
children and families in Greater Victoria since 1920. The Victoria Kiwanis Foundation has been a registered charitable foundation
since 1969.
The Kiwanis Club of Victoria provides financial support to a
variety of local and international organizations. Recent donations include support to
organizations such as:
Arthritis Society of BC
& Yukon
Beacon Hill Park Farm Society
Blanshard Community Centre Summer Camps
BC Firefighters Burn Fund
BC Special Olympics
BC Wheelchair Sports
Building Healthy Families Program
Community Council of Victoria
Cridge Centre for the Family
Esquimalt Baseball Association
Foster Parents Plan
Garth Homer Society
Hands of Mercy School project, Tanzania
Healthy Babies Program
International Association for Transformation
Jamshir Children’s Village
Juvenile Diabetes Research
L.B. Pearson College of the Pacific
The Lodge at Broadmead
Mercy Ships (Victoria branch)
The Mustard Seed Street Church
Northwest Medical Teams
Operation Track Shoes
S.A.L.T.S. Sail & Life Training Society
Salvation Army
Vancouver Island Head Injury Society
In addition, the Kiwanis Club of Victoria has several of its own
programs. Some of the current programs
include:
Affordable Housing
Kiwanis Village
The Kiwanis
Village Society is a non-profit housing Society, which operates two Villages
of affordable housing for independent living, low-income Seniors.
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more information.
K-West
The Vic West
Housing Society operates K-West, a 39-unit complex that includes 21 two or
three bedroom family townhouse units and 18 one bedroom apartment units for seniors.
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more information.
Youth Leadership
Programs
UVic Circle K
CKI (Circle K International)
is a student-led organization sponsored by Kiwanis International; it is for students at the college/university
level.
The
University of Victoria Circle K Club is a group of
students dedicated to service on campus and in the community. It is a non-profit organization sponsored
by Kiwanis, and any student or member of the community is welcome to join.
The club is all about service, friends, and fun!
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for more information.
Claremont Key Club
Key Club International
is a student-led organization sponsored by Kiwanis
International; it is for students at the high school level.
While the Claremont Key Club is
sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Sidney and
Peninsula, the Kiwanis Club of Victoria
occasionally provides financial assistance to support youth leadership
activities.
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information.
Builders Club
Builders Club
International is a student organization sponsored by Kiwanis International; it
is for students at the middle school or junior high level.
The Kiwanis Club
of Victoria co-sponsors with UVic Circle K a Builders Club at Central Middle School.
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for more information.
K-Kids
K-Kids International
is a community service organization for elementary school students and is
sponsored by Kiwanis.
Two local K-Kids
clubs are co-sponsored by UVic Circle K and the Kiwanis
Club of Victoria:
George Jay Elementary
Campus View Elementary
Youth Services
Kiwanis Emergency Youth Shelter
The Kiwanis Emergency Youth Shelter, a 10 bed facility, providing services to
youth between the ages of 13 and 18 who have no safe place to stay. KEYS
responds to a wide range of crisis, including parent/teen conflict, abuse issues
and youth homelessness etc. The Shelter is run by the Victoria Youth
Empowerment Society.
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School
Safety Patrol
For more than 50
years, the Kiwanis Club of Victoria has been
providing equipment for student crossing guards for busy streets near schools
in Victoria
schools. In fact, some Kiwanis members
volunteered as crossing guards when they were in elementary school! This program continues to protect children while
providing young students with volunteer experience.
Young Children: Priority One
Kiwanis House
Kiwanis House provides young women and their children a "hand-up"
towards independence through safe, attractive, affordable housing, where the
mothers would have an opportunity to gain life and employment skills and
foster a sense of self-worth, self-confidence and self-reliance. Kiwanis has 8 self-contained suites for
single parent families and is operated by the YMCA.
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information.
Other
Royal Victoria Marathon
For many years
now, the Kiwanis Club of Victoria
has provided dozens of volunteers to staff a water station at the Royal
Victoria Marathon (usually near Dallas and Central).
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information.
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