PARSIPPANY — Officers of the Parsippany Hills High School Key Club visited the Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany during their weekly breakfast meeting at Empire Diner to discuss this years progress.
Key Club, which stands for Kiwanis Educated Youth, is the world’s oldest and largest service program for high school students. Key Club was founded in 1925. It has its own system of government lead by students, with adults as advisors only. New Jersey has over 150 Key Clubs and nearly 13,000 members. This year, over 2,500 of these Key Clubbers will graduate. Per capita, New Jersey has the second highest Key Club membership rate in the world. Morris County has 17 Key Clubs with nearly 2,000 members, giving it among the highest per capita Key Club membership in New Jersey. Among many other projects and initiatives, New Jersey Key Clubs have raised nearly $350,000 for a Kiwanis and UNICEF campaign to eliminate Maternal/Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) from the world. Kiwanis recently reached its goal of raising $110 million in cash and pledges for this purpose. Since the campaign started, MNT has been eliminated from 20 of 40 countries where MNT was prevalent, and another 13 countries are expected to be MNT free by the end of 2017. Thanks to this project, 25 less babies die in the world each day.
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