| Q: What does an Aktion
Club do?
A: An Aktion Club performs a variety of services for
the community and cooperating agency. It conducts fund-raisers such as
car washes, paper drives, and recycling projects to raise money for needs
in the community.
Aktion Club members perform a variety of community services, such as
environmental projects, park beautification, food drives, nursing home
visitations, and assisting Kiwanis clubs with their projects.
Aktion Clubs also take time out for fun! Aktion members visit zoos, go
to sporting events, and visit museums, among many other activities. They
play as hard as they work. If there’s an Aktion Club in your town,
you can find its members anywhere there’s service to be rendered
or fun to be had.
Q: Who Sponsors an Aktion Club?
A: These clubs are sponsored by a Kiwanis
club, sometimes in cooperation with a local agency, for citizens who live
with developmental disabilities. An Aktion Club can also be sponsored
by a group of Kiwanis clubs or a whole division (Kiwanis clubs within
an area), or a Kiwanis club may wish to co-sponsor an Aktion Club with
a Key Club (high school students) or a Circle K club (college students.)
The success of the Aktion Club depends on the involvement
of the sponsoring Kiwanis club and the support of an agency serving adults
with these disabilities (if an agency is present.)
Q: How Do I Get an Aktion
Club Started?
A: The Chartering
Checklist bulletin walks you through the
process of getting started -- what materials are needed, who you need
to contact and much more!
Also, there are two publications describing the Aktion Club
program available for viewing on the Web site in pdf format.
If you would like to order hard copies of the mentioned
brochures/ bulletin please click
here.
Q: What is the cost of chartering
a new Aktion Club?
A: The chartering fee is US$460 and must
be paid at the time of chartering. The fee includes the membership pins,
cards, handbooks, certificiates, a gong, gavel and banner.
Q: What does the club get
for the $5.00 per member fee?
A: After Kiwanis International processes
the paperwork for a new club, a Certificate of Charter is sent to the
Kiwanis advisor of the new club. Then, 4-6 weeks after
receiving the charter (or after International's receipt of the annual
membership fees), several additional items are mailed to the Aktion Club's
Kiwanis a dvisor - a sponsor patch for the Kiwanis club's banner, and
membership cards, handbooks , and pins for the Aktion Club members . Please
be aware that it will be 4-6 weeks after
the charter has been received by the club that the second package
containing the cards, pins and handbooks should arrive. Use this time
for new clubs to order banners and to schedule a Charter P resentation
Ceremony and for existing clubs to prepare a New Member and Officer Induction
Ceremony.
Q: What are the benefits of
Aktion Club?
A: Individuals who live with disabilities
often have many talents but little opportunity to develop or apply them.
These special citizens have few chances to interact socially and sometimes
little opportunity to function in society. Too often, they are isolated
and dependent when they could be making valuable contributions to themselves
and to the world around them.
Agencies that serve those who live with disabilities do
their best to help clients reach their potential. Many of these agencies,
however, do not have the funding or staff to provide the community-based
social and recreational activities that their clients need. The volunteer
effort of local Kiwanis sponsors can address these and many other concerns
through Aktion Club.
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