Aktion active in service

Aktion Clubs are on the move. Members selflessly give their time to do their part and improve their communities. In only its seventh year, Aktion Club is increasingly integrating into the Kiwanis family.

Here are a few examples of Aktion Club accomplishments this year:

• In State College, Pennsylvania, Aktion Clubbers participated in a bowlathon, raising money for a school for Ambucs International and Easter Seals. Ambucs provides mobility equipment for people who have disabilities, and Easter Seals operates a school for physically and developmentally delayed children.

• The Aktion Club of Charlevoix-Bergmann Center Inc, Michigan, collected blankets during the city’s Apple Festival. The club delivered the covers to several agencies that assist needy people.

• Members of the Aktion Club of Monroe, Michigan, volunteered their time at a church and served 120 homeless people over the span of several months.

• With a mind toward helping other disabled adults, the Aktion Club of Mason Rural Outreach Program, Michigan, helped construct a wheelchair ramp.

• In Erie, Pennsylvania, Aktion Club members raised funds for the Dr. Gertrude A. Barber National Institute, which provides services for people who have disabilities. Members decorated and sold Halloween cookies and donated US$50 of their own money to the organization.