The T-O Today - Issue 1

Service Leadership Fellowship

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Dylann Lowery

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Club Building and Growth

Kiwanis Family

Membership D&E

Governor’s Project

Laws and Regulation

Kelly Wood Godfrey

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District Goals & Progress Report

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School Name: University of Texas at Dallas Author’s Name: Brittney Handoko

School Name: Texas A&M University Author’s Name: Victoria Erb

District Project

What is the Monarch Watch Project?

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Why is this significant to the Kiwanis Family?

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2016-2017 Governor’s Project Guide Letter From District Governor and Governor’s Project Chair:

Inside this Guide Unify to Purify 101......... 2 Fundraisers .................... 4

We are so excited to introduce the Governor’s Project for this year, Unify to Purify. This guide is designed to help answer your questions about the project, give you additional resources, and provide ideas that you can implement into your club.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please be sure to contact us.

Completion Form........... 6 Awareness ..................... 7 Chapter Incentive .......... 9

Main Project Goals

We look forward to seeing everything you guys do to help us reach our district goals!

Raise awareness around our community about the global water crisis

Thank You,

Raise $2000 as a district to support the cause

Mariana Garay Romero Miti Patel

Mariana Garay Romero

District Governor

Governor’s Project Chair

governor@txokcki.org

gov-project@txokcki.org

1 awareness and 1 service event per club

UNIFY TO PURIFY 101 Currently, 2.8 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and the most basic sanitation facilities. An estimated 4,500 children die each day due to waterborne illnesses and millions are trapped in a cycle of poverty. Let’s do our part to turn adversity, sickness, and death into hope, good health, and life.

By combining the efforts of Texas – Oklahoma Circle K International members will educate students on campus and members of the community on the water crisis, and take part in providing clean, safe water to afflicted parts of the world.

“Every day, 800 children under five die from diarrhea linked to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene.”

Where Funds Go

UNICEF

Millions of children around the globe do not have safe, clean water to drink, and the lack of this basic necessity isn’t just inconvenient — it’s lethal. UNICEF’s Tap Project challenges you to see how long you can go without your cell phone. For every 5 minutes you don’t text, call, email, tweet or post, you provide 1 day of drinking water to a child.

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UNICEF works in more than 100 countries to improve access to safe, clean water and sanitation facilities. Whether by delivering clean water after a disaster or promoting safe hygiene practices in schools and communities, UNICEF is on the ground helping children in need. The UNICEF Tap Project, for example, benefited more than a half million people over 10 years by providing access to clean, safe water in communities where clean water was hard to access.

Since 1990, with the help of UNICEF and its partners, some 2.6 billion people have gained access to clean drinking water. Ninety -one percent of the global population now has improved drinking water and that number is growing.

Where Funds Go Our preferred method of implementing in the field is to build hand pump freshwater wells. Hand pump borehole wells don’t rely on any external source of power. These projects are not dependent on communities’ ability to pay for ongoing fuel costs to run a generator and aren’t dependent on unreliable solar panels, which often break and cannot easily be repaired or replaced by community Boy drinking for newly built water well

members (and are a highrisk for theft). Unlike so

THIRST PROJECT

many so-called “latest and

Our mission is simple: Build a socially-conscious generation of young people who END the global water crisis. We do this by educating students about it and activating them to rock the clean water cause & build real water projects all over the world. Why Water? Health and Sanitation: Waterborne diseases kill more children every single year than AIDS, Malaria, and all world violence combined. Small children typically do not have strong enough immune systems to fight diseases like cholera, dysentery, or schistosomiasis.

which often rely on parts

By providing a community with safe drinking water, disease rates can drop by up to 88% virtually overnight! Child mortality rates can drop up to 90%- overnight! Clean water also plays an incredibly critical role in effectively treating and managing HIV/ AIDS in rural communities.

Key Club is teaming up with Thirst Project to dominate the global water crisis! This January, we will participate in Thirsty 30. Clubs will collectively commit to raise money for clean water projects, especially in Swaziland.

greatest” technologies, that cannot be locallysourced & technologies that require unavailable specialists in the rural areas we work in, community members can be trained to maintain and repair these projects themselves for decades to come.

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Why Fundraise?

At a cost of only 6 cents, oral rehydration salts are a mixture of

sugar and salt called oral rehy-

Fundraising As a District, our goal is to reach the $2000 goal that our Governor, Miti Patel has set for us. With this money, we will donate $1000 to UNICEF and $1000 to The Thirst Project.

dration salts

Spare Change “Spell-It-Out” Spell out water related words and have passersby cover up the letters with spare change.

(ORS) offers the most effective and cheapest

Project Ideas

way to save lives Job cards

during dehydration.

Each volunteer writes on a 3”x5” card what they would be willing to do for fundraising for pay (i.e. painting, car washing, cleaning, yard work, babysitting). These cards can be placed on a table during a Kiwanis meeting.

It’s probably better to let the “purchaser” make a freewill donation.

Eat for CKI Ask a local restaurant to donate 10% (or whatever they agree to) of their profits on a designated night for your club in exchange for encouraging supporters to eat there. You can ask around before you go to certain restaurants, because obviously some restaurants in your area will have more people coming to eat there more than others. Create a huge buzz and advertise the restaurant a lot, especially the week before your set date.

Balloon Bust Create a wall of balloons, each with some little papers in them. Sell tickets to pop these balloons! While some balloons will have “try again” tickets, some others might have prizes inside or even a cash prize. This can be a great activity to have in addition to a cause or awareness event.

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Thirsty Thursday Save the money you would regularly spend on beverages, and donate to Unify to Purify. For me, Starbucks is my go-to place for my favorite beverage: Iced Carmel Macchiato. On average, I spend around $4.00. Looking at this amount, I could provide 100 days of clean water to children in need by simply skipping out for one day. I urge you all to do the same. Whether it’s a cup of coffee from your local Starbucks, or a sweet tea from Sonic, save your money and save a life!

Water Bottle Have a table set up at school with information about Unify to Purify with a water bottle that is filled with dirt and water and when talking about it tell them how awful it would be to have to drink this, and then have another water bottle that is empty for people to make donations.

Water Well Wishes On a poster board or trifold display board, draw a picture of a water well. Sell water droplet cut-outs for a set amount of money and have students decorate them with their name, major, Greek letters, etc. Another approach would be for the buyers to write their “wishes” onto the water droplets. Sell until time or supply runs out, and see oyour well fill up with water.

How to Submit Funds If your club as fundraised money to Unify to Purify, you can send the donation to the TXOK Kiwanis District Office after you complete the Unify to Purify progress form.

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Project Completion Form After every awareness or fundraising event that your club does, fill out the Unify to Purify Progress Form which will ask a series a questions in regards to the event. This will help the Governor’s Project Chair keep track of club progress as well as earn your club recognition for your hard work at District Convention.

The link can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/UnifytoPurify

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Raising Awareness One in five children in developing countries is susceptible to diseases caused by bacteria that grow in unsafe waters The most common diseases lead to diarrhea and dehydration, which can lead to death if untreated In order to stay healthy, it is important to drink 1.5 to 2 liters of clean water every day

“The average distance that someone in a developing community walks to fetch water is 3.75 miles.�

Clean Water Can Change the World Improving health begins with access to clean water. In developing countries, about 80% of illnesses are linked to poor water conditions. Every glass of water is a potential killer because of the bacteria present, which causes diseases. Sickness leads to poor productivity.

Globally, we use 70% of our water sources for agriculture and irrigation.

Without access to a reliable source of water, food is hard to grow, preserve, and prepare. Relieving hunger begins with access to clean water to improve crop production and the nutrition of a community.

Students' academic performance and attendance rates are effected by the lack of clean water as they deal with stomach pains and diarrhea from disease and hunger.

Furthermore, students miss class to go fetch water or to care for sick family members.

Unfortunately, this gives rise to inequality because typically, the responsibility of collecting water falls on the girls (between the ages of eight and thirteen). Young women carry over 40 pounds of dirty water from over 3.75 miles from their home. Education simply becomes less of a priority.

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CIRCLE K INERNATIONAL

Chapter Incentives The chapter that fundraises the most money towards Unify to Purify will be presented a Special Recognition Award at District Convention.

Don’t forget to fill out your project completion form online after each service and fundraising event!

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