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Key Club Research Paper

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Hi, Ms. Hitchens!

I'm President of Chatfield's Key Club. At our last officer meeting, my fellow officers expressed interest in setting up a booth for the bonfire to raise both awareness and money for the Eliminate project. I'm extremely passionate about this project and can go on a rant about it, but I'll try my absolute hardest to give you a quick little summary:

The Eliminate project is our main service project that Key Club International is focusing on this year, and we have been dedicated to this project since it began five years ago. Kiwanis (who sponsors Key Club) and UNICEF formed a partnership to eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) from the face of the planet. Primarily in countries with poor birthing conditions, tetanus spores (found in soil everywhere) may infect open wounds, infecting the umbilical cord and causing the newborn to contract MNT. Known to be the seven-day death, the baby suffers from excruciating convulsions and an extreme sensitivity to light, sound, and touch, preventing even a mother's comfort. Every eleven minutes, a newborn dies from MNT. However, it only costs $1.80 to provide the necessary vaccination that will protect a mother and all of her future children, saving a family from being torn apart. Great progress has been made already. Key Club has helped Kiwanis and UNICEF eliminate MNT from over twenty countries. If you want to find …show more content…

Initiative. Each letter is assigned to each month in the school year, starting in September with "Educate." Chatfield's Key Club officers were hoping we could set up a booth at the bonfire to educate our community about this project and to begin to raise money to save lives. At our next Key Club meeting on September 15, we plan to create a committee to prepare and run the booth. Our Vice President, George Beckwith (who I copied into this email) will lead this

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