The Southport Oak Island Kiwanis Club was chartered in 1994 as one of 7,700 clubs in 80 countries.  Our motto: 

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 “Improving the world, one child and one community at a time.”

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For over 25 years our approximately 100-member club has served the youth of Brunswick County through more than 30 service programs. These include Young Children Priority One, Terrific Kids, Royal Readers, K-Kids, Builders Club, Ramps and Pathways, Key Club, Circle K, Aktion Club, and Teen and Peer Courts.  Our Giving Garden supplies thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables to area food pantries each year, and we support local and national organizations such as Matthew's Ministry, First Tee, and the Tim Tebow Foundation's Night to Shine initiative. 

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The Southport-Oak Island club has been recognized annually since 2000 by Kiwanis International as a Distinguished Club.

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Kiwanis helps kids both locally and around the world. While our local club serves many Brunswick County communities, Kiwanis international takes on numerous large-scale challenges, such as fighting disease and poverty. We are generous with our time, creative with our ideas, and passionate about making a difference. We also have fun along the way!

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For more than a century, Kiwanis has created opportunities for children to be curious, safe and healthy regardless of the community in which they live. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things can happen.

 

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The Kiwanis Mission & Vision

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Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the lives of children. Kiwanis strives to be a positive influence in communities worldwide — so that one day, all children will wake up in communities that believe in them, nurture them and provide the support they need to thrive. Our local club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through our many community service projects.
 

Currently we:

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• Carry out 30+ on-going service projects/programs within Brunswick County.

• Perform more than 13,000 hours of community service each year.

• Raise more than $100,000 annually to support the youth of Brunswick County and the world.

• Award over $25,000 in scholarships yearly.

• Purchase and deliver books to county childhood development centers to support early childhood reading programs.

• Touch the lives of thousands of children through programs, tutoring, mentoring, academic recognition, career counseling, leadership development, character building, nutrition, foster care support, and health care.

• Drive more than 28,000 miles and deliver more than 10,000 hot meals to home-bound seniors each year.

• Are working through the Kiwanis Eliminate Project to “eliminate” Maternal and Neo-Natal Tetanus (NMT) to save thousands of lives among mothers and their babies in developing countries.

 

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