Kiwanis Service

We are a club-based organisation. Volunteers in clubs who provide meaningful service, are at the heart of the organisation. Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located.
Kiwanis International is a global community of clubs, members and partners dedicated to improving the lives of children one community at a time. Today, we stand with more than 550,000 members from K-Kids to Key Club to Kiwanis and many ages in between in 80 countries and geographic areas. Each community has different needs, and Kiwanis empowers members to pursue creative ways to serve the needs of children, such as fighting hunger, improving literacy and offering guidance. Kiwanis clubs host nearly 150,000 service projects each year.

In Europe, we have +/- 1280 local clubs who all do service projects and raise money for communities, families and projects. We have different type of clubs in Europe: we have the classical service clubs that gather together, donate money or organize fundraising activities, but also clubs of people that do hands-on community service, organize youth camps, and help directly schools, child departments of hospitals, youth organisations…