International Week of Service

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International Week of Service
13/02/201721/05/2019
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Dear fellow Y’s Men/Y Service Club members,

Y’s Men/Y Service International has joined together with other international service organisations to partner in an International Week of Service. Across the globe, volunteers – like you – are working to improve their communities. As we take on many challenges facing us today, we create personal bonds and friendships with other community members and volunteers. It is in this spirit that we ask your clubs to invite another local service group to volunteer with you during the last week of March (25-31 March).

Information and resources for this event can be found at weekofservice.org. Also, visit the International Week of Service 2017 Facebook event to RSVP and see what other clubs are planning.

Below are addresses for the Week of Service website in various language versions:

English: https://weekofservice.org/

German: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=de

French: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=fr

Japanese: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=ja

Chinese: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=zh-hant

Italian: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=it

Korean: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=ko

Portuguese: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=pt-pt

Swedish: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=sv

Spanish: https://weekofservice.org/?lang=es

Organisations participating in this event include:

  • Y’s Men International
  • Lions Clubs International
  • Rotary International
  • Optimist International
  • Junior Chamber International
  • Kiwanis International
  • Moose International
  • Soroptimist
  • Pilot International
  • Sertoma Inc.
  • National AMBUCS
  • The National Exchange Club

We simply ask that your club work with one or more other area service groups to do something together for your community. This can be an activity that is already planned for that week or something new. Then share your photos and videos from this activity at weekofservice.org, on the Facebook event and on social media with the hashtag #weekofservice2017. Also, complete the fill-in-the-blank press release available at weekofservice.org (also attached) and send it with a photo to your local media.

In addition to helping more people and communities in one week than ever before, this event will help us to promote all of our organisations, highlight membership opportunities and reinforce the importance of civic engagement and individual social responsibility. It is a chance for our volunteers to forge lasting relationships – further enabling prospects for future joint projects.

I encourage you to join in this partnership as we serve together like never before! Remember that together we can do so much more!

Y’sly in service,

Joan Wilson, International President 2016-17