| What
is Builder's Club?
Builders Club
is the largest service organization for middle school students
(ages 12 to 14), with more than 35,000 members worldwide.
The first
Builders Club was chartered in 1975.
Today, there are more than 2,000 clubs in Aruba,
Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Martinique,
Philippines, Suriname, and the United States.
Builders Club
is a “student lead” community-service organization which
operates under school regulations and draws its members from
the student body.
Builders Club
is structured only on the local club level but is supported by
the Kiwanis International Office in Indianapolis, Indiana,
which provides programs, literature and opportunities to
relate to teenagers from countries all around the world!
The Builders
Club motto is “We Build,” and its objectives are:
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To provide opportunities for
working together in service to school and
community.
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To develop leadership
potential.
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To foster the development of
a strong moral character.
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To encourage loyalty to
school, community and nation.
How Do
Students Benefit?
Middle school
years bridge the gap between childhood and young adulthood.
It is a crossroad in life.
Young people need and want new and exciting challenges
that direct their personal development toward the fulfillment
of a happy and productive life.
Builders Club helps to build strong leaders for
tomorrow…today.
Builders
Club provides a way to form sound personal values based on
experiences in meaningful community-service activities.
The members learn by doing.
They learn organization, teamwork and leadership.
But the most important lesion they can learn is that
individuals working together can and will make a difference to
the world around them.
What Can
a Builders Clubs Do?
Whether the
club is involved with a small project at school or in
conjunction with a Kiwanis club, Key Club or Circle K club
doing a larger project, Builders Club can make their presence
known.
Project might
include:
- Sponsor
a “Teacher of the Year” program
- Provide
a recycling collection point
- Organize
canned food and clothing drives to support local shelters
- Adopt
a resident at a local senior citizens home
- Adopt-a-Highway
program
- Raise
money for new playground equipment/computer equipment
- Tutoring
- Raise
money for a local hospital
The
Possibilities are Endless!
Builders
Clubs may also wish to partner with community groups that also
focus on the welfare of children.
Such
organizations might include:
- Children’s
Miracle Network (CMN) and Children’s Hospitals
- March
of Dimes
- UNICEF
What makes
Builders Club so successful is that it is a student-led
organization that teaches leadership through serving others.
Alpine
Kiwanis’ own Eisenhower Builders Club will be selling
permits to allow students to wear a “hat” on “Hat Day”
Tuesday, April 29, 2003. The
proceeds from the sale of the permits will be given to the
Ronald McDonald Care Mobile.
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