When Canada was hit hard by the pandemic, passionate Lions mobilized quickly to support their neighbors in need. With an LCIF COVID-19 frontline relief grant, Lions purchased essential personal protective equipment for healthcare providers and frontline responders caring for vulnerable long-term-care-facility residents and patients, and helping save lives.
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Helping Humanitarians Roar
Earth isn’t just our home. It’s where Lions and Leos are called to serve, and our call always begins with a ROAR! With every donation returned in the form of grant programs and funding, Lions Clubs International Foundation – YOUR foundation – amplifies every hour you commit to your community’s well-being. Lions and Leos worldwide… Continue reading Helping Humanitarians Roar
School Repairs Delight Students and Community
A student’s eagerness to learn can quickly diminish when their school environment is distracting, unclean, and unsafe. After Typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda), Tagdon Elementary School was destroyed. Lions in Germany wanted to help. They raised funds and secured a grant from Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) to renovate and… Continue reading School Repairs Delight Students and Community
Focus on Childhood Cancer
The word “cancer” becomes a part of everyday life for the families of almost 800 Australian children per year. While advances in treatment have been able to save many of these children, there are still 20 percent who do not survive. To give kids a better chance, Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and the Australian… Continue reading Focus on Childhood Cancer
Expanding a School and Providing Clean Water
The Lions of District 356-F in Korea have received a Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) Standard grant for US$30,000 to expand a school in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia. Lions of Korea traveled to Cambodia to build the new classroom building on the school grounds. They also installed a water well which is providing clean… Continue reading Expanding a School and Providing Clean Water
Restoring Dignity in Korea
After social welfare facility Angels Haven was closed in the Eunpyeong District of Seoul due to unsafe conditions, its residents, many with intellectual disabilities and severe handicaps, were forced to share small apartments with up to 14 men in each for more than four years. Some apartments were no larger than 50 square meters and… Continue reading Restoring Dignity in Korea
Past Support Prepares Hospital
From 2014 to 2016, Sierra Leone battled the Ebola virus. Being one of the countries hardest-hit, they lost nearly 4,000 lives, including seven percent of their healthcare workers. Closed schools, shutdown businesses, and overrun hospitals are scenes all too familiar for local citizens. When news of the coronavirus (COVID-19) broke, hospital workers at Koidu Government… Continue reading Past Support Prepares Hospital
Hospitality Blooms
The Venezia Host and Venezia Angelo Partecipazio Lions clubs in Italy teamed up with the Koudougou Baobab Lions Club in Burkina Faso and Lions Clubs International (LCIF) to address food insecurity in several villages in the West African nation. LCIF awarded US$54,267 to Italian Lions in support of the project, which was very successful. A… Continue reading Hospitality Blooms
A Safe Place to Play
Once wrought with unsightly, overgrown foliage, weeds, and dangerous playground equipment, Korczak’s Gardens is now a beautiful, safe place for children of a nearby orphanage and a school for children with disabilities. Thanks to a US$40,366 LCIF grant, crews cleared land, installed a synthetic surface designed for safe play, and paved a new path so… Continue reading A Safe Place to Play
Isolated, But Never Alone
It can be tough moving to a retirement home. There are new surroundings to learn, routines to create, roommates to meet, and adjusting to living apart from family. It is a new reality that can make residents feel lonely as they adjust. It can be even more difficult when illness requires isolation from visitors. During… Continue reading Isolated, But Never Alone