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By Sue Cummins Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club. As reported on the KI website, Kiwanis members stage more than 150,000 service projects, devote more than 6 million hours of service and raise nearly US$100 million every year for communities, families and projects. Key Club members pitch in 12 million hours of service each year, and CKI members add another 500,000 hours. Aktion Club members donate another 92,000 hours of service every year to communities. Add it all up and that’s more than 19 million hours of service every year! The thing about these numbers is that these are the REPORTED service hours. Let’s take a look at what regularly happens with our own club to see just how innacurate these numbers can be. During the months of October and November of this year we had 12 members participate in service projects. But, only 9 reported to our club secretary what they had done! That’s a 25% decrease in the numbers for our club’s records! If every club across the world has the same approximate percentage of non-reported service hours, then our Kiwanis International service record is mostly likely much higher! So, who cares? Are “bragging rights” all that important? Believe it or not, the answer to this question is “yes”. But, it’s not actually about “bragging”, so much as it’s about making it possible to receive as much assistance from potential corporate and organizational sponsors as we can! If you look at the BIG picture, the more service hours our KI organization is able to report, the more likely we are to receive outside assistance for our projects and activities. So, this is a reminder to all of us to please email our previous month’s service hours to Beth Morehouse at frank.beth@comcast.net on the first of each month. We need to include the project names, the dates of service and the hours for each time we work. Reporting what we do actually matters!
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