What is Junior Chamber International (JCI)??History of JCI...The organization founded in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. by Henry Giessenbier in 1910.
Junior Chamber is a people organization. People resort to violence when communication, understanding, patience, tolerance, reason and love cease to exist. Junior Chamber's plan is to offer opportunities to the members that will reinforce these positive qualities.
The idea is to bring people together. Many opportunities are created when people with various social, cultural, ethnic, religious, economic, and national backgrounds meet. At national conventions, Area conferences and world congresses, members come face-to-face with one another to share experiences and exchange ideas which lead to better understanding and cooperation.
A bond of brotherhood and genuine friendship is established as Junior Chamber members seek the ways and means to improve themselves and the world in which they live.
The purpose of Junior Chamber is to show the rest of the world:
That all human beings can be developed.
That all are equal.
That the world is interdependent,
That the world does not belong to humans, but that humans belong to the world.
That every human being is a citizen of the world.
The Purpose of JCI...The Establishment of a Permanent World Peace
The dream and purpose of Junior Chamber are most clearly expressed in the words of founder Henry "Hy" Giessenbier who said:
From within the walls of the soul of this organization, wherein the foundation of character and citizenship are laid, I hope a message will come forth in the sometime of tomorrow that will stir the people toward the establishment of a permanent and everlasting world peace.

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