KCOJ bloglines: Kiwanis One Day 2016

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Kiwanis One Day 2016

KCOJ members (left to right) Lois, Colleen, Carol & Fran created blankets and packaged food & toiletry items for the area homeless. Not pictured are Pam and her family. (Mea culpa: photo error.)

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson, together with one of its sponsored youth groups, The Goetz Middle School Builders Club, participated in creating 15 blankets for the homeless. It also put together packages of food items and toiletries for the area homeless.

The two groups met at the Whitesville Firehouse Saturday, April 2, 2016.

The Kiwanis One Day Project is celebrated annually around the world. The Kiwanis clubs each pick their own project and partner with the sponsored youth clubs to "improve the world one child, one community at a time."

Members of the Goetz Middle School Builders Club helped make blankets for the local homeless.

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About KCOJ

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson just celebrated its 25th birthday. We organized February 7, 1991 and since then we have raised funds for scholarships, we have sponsored youth programs, worked with other local community service groups and donated $200,000.00 to eliminate Iodine deficiency disorders and neonatal tetanus, and co-fund the expansion of Children’s Specialized Hospital.

We have presented nearly 100 scholarships to graduating Jackson high school seniors and dozens to other students in the state.

We have sponsored four Key Clubs, which are service clubs for high school students that are a vital part of our Kiwanis family. We also sponsor two Builders Clubs for middle school students.

We have worked with other community groups like The Rotary Club, The Jackson Food Pantry with the Jackson Women of Today, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the Jackson PBA, The Handicapped Commission, the Fossils, the Ocean County Library, and Habitat for Humanity.

Our activities have included our annual Breakfast with Santa, our annual Police Officer of the Year dinner, helping the homeless, highway cleanup, cleanup of the Holmanville Church cemetery, health fairs, bike rodeos, and we hosted several community dinners.

Our favorite activity, though, is cooking for other groups like Sandy Relief, Chariot Riders, the annual PBA picnic, National Night Out Against Crime, the homeless, the Jackson and Lakewood branches of the Ocean County Library, and the Black Cowboys Association.

We have also made an impact on the world in large and small ways. We have donated farm animals to impoverished people. We have donated to put a smile on children’s faces.

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson aims to “improve the world one child, one community at a time.”