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PRACTICE AREAS

History of Ys Dom

Founded in Toledo, Ohio, USA in 1922 to support a local YMCA, Y’s Men International is now oriented to serving the worldwide YMCA, the largest non-governmental youth organisation, and through it the communities in which it is present throughout the world. Since the YMCA is usually known as “the Y” in the USA, and as the Y’s Men movement started there as a club of “men of and for the Y”, it was named the “Y’s Men’s Club”.

Judge Paul William Alexander(Pictured) was the founder of the first club together with a group of other young men. However, today women are also full members of our movement and family participation is encouraged in numerous activities. Since 1995 local affiliated clubs wishing to emphasise this openness can choose to call themselves “Y’s Men and Women’s Clubs” or “Y Service Clubs”. Members are known as Y’s Men or Y’s Women.

OUR VISION

Y’s Men International will be recognised globally as a service organisation promoting cultural awareness leading to brotherhood and world peace.Y’s Men International will be recognised globally as a service organisation promoting cultural awareness leading to brotherhood and world peace.

OUR MISSION

As Y’s Men International is a world-wide fellowship of persons of all faiths working constructively together, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, in partnership with and supporting the YMCA, its mission is to strive through active service to develop, encourage and provide leadership to build a better world for all humankind.

OUR MOTTO

“To acknowledge the duty that accompanies every right.”

This motto was adopted by Y’s Men because of the tendency of most people to insist upon full enjoyment of all rights while remaining oblivious to the corresponding duties giving validity to such rights. Just as the green light giving right of way to traffic on one street must have a corresponding red light to warn traffic on the cross-street of its duty to stop, so every right we enjoy is founded upon a corresponding duty. Our motto is a constant challenge to us to pay less heed to our rights, and more to the discovery and discharge of their corresponding duties – to transfer the emphasis from rights to duties.