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PINECREST SCHOOL PARTNERS WITH KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL TO HELP CHILDREN AT HOME AND ABROAD

K-Kids is the elementary school branch of Kiwanis International, an international community service organization dedicated to helping children worldwide. Working under the auspices of a sponsoring Kiwanis Club and an adult advisor, K-Kids members learn to work cooperatively to identify and carry out community service projects.

Head of School Ms. McDermott, a long-time Kiwanis member, is the Pinecrest K-Kids Club advisor, and our club is proudly sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Tysons, Virginia. K-Kids membership is open to students in Grades 2-6 and annual dues are $2.50 per student. K-Kids club members elect their own student officers and meet (with Ms. McDermott) once a week at lunchtime. Throughout the school year, Pinecrest K-Kids participate in a variety of community service projects, such as:

Organizing food drives
Visiting local assisted-living facilities and bringing cheer to the residents through songs, jokes and conversation
Cleaning up Pinecrest School’s Adopt-a-Highway (through VDOT) road in Annandale
Making dog toys for local animal shelters
Collecting hats for local children with cancer
Raising funds for good causes such as the Ronald McDonald House, Make-a-Wish Foundation or The Eliminate Project, a joint effort between Kiwanis International and UNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus from the many countries still affected by this deadly disease

It makes me happy to do these things

When I think about the projects we do in K-Kids, I imagine that the child we’re raising money for at St. Jude’s could be my little brother, or the retiree at the retirement home could be my grandmother. The highway we clean up could be a road we travel on our daily route to school! It would make me happy to know that someone was taking care of my little brother, or my grandmother, or my neighborhood street, so it makes me happy to do these things in my community.

Fourth Grader

Opportunity to do things to make a difference

I joined K-Kids because it seemed like an opportunity to do things to make a difference. I always used to think, ‘I wish someone would do this to help people.’ Now I think, ‘We should plan to do this at the next meeting.’

Sixth Grader

I enjoy helping people and the earth

I enjoy helping people and the earth through Kiwanis and I know many others do, too!

Fifth Grader

The better it is for the world

The more people in K-Kids, the better it is for the world.

Third Grader