By Jamie DeKruif on 12/7/2009 8:44 AM

The Hi-Crew Kiwanis Club will be at the Hiawatha Public library wrapping your gifts for a donation to raise money for local community projects.  Save yourself some time and let us do the wrapping for you!!

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By Jamie DeKruif on 8/26/2009 6:43 AM

2009 marked the Hi-Crew Kiwanis very First Annual 4th of July Pancake Breakfast. This event was launched to help our fundraising effort – to establish a strong base to allow us to fund more projects than we currently do.

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By Jamie DeKruif on 8/22/2009 8:39 AM

This summer Hiawatha Playground, Tot-Lot and Youth in Parks programs raised money for Kids Against Hunger.  This organization helps to feed starving children all over the world by raising money and organizing packaging events.  The meals they send out consist of rice, soy, dried vegetables and vitamin and mineral supplement powder.  Kids Against Hunger International has shipped food to over 40 countries, including the USA.   

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By Jamie DeKruif on 8/21/2009 4:40 PM

The Dictionary Project is the name of an organization formed in South Carolina.  Their goal was to encourage literacy at the third grade level, and they created these dictionaries designed specifically for third graders.

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By Jamie DeKruif on 8/21/2009 4:36 PM

This project supplies the volunteer first responders in Iowa and Nebraska with pediatric trauma kits.

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By Jamie DeKruif on 8/21/2009 4:33 PM

A project our club has the opportunity to participate in is the backpack project. This project would be done in partnership with the Nebraska-Iowa Kiwanis District Foundation which supplies the backpacks.

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By Jamie DeKruif on 8/21/2009 4:17 PM

 Brian Turindwamukama from Uganda is enrolled at the Scattergood Friends School in West Branch, Iowa.  He is there because our Kiwanis Club with others have banded together to change this one child's life.

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