Story Category: Humanitário

Responding to COVID-19 in Canada

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.

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

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

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

Ease the Burden

The Lions of District LC-4 were recently awarded a Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) Standard grant of US$27,900 to purchase a 15-passenger transportation vehicle and medical equipment for the association. Now, patients are transported in a more efficient and comfortable manner, and the home can provide improved medical care. Through LCIF, communities gain access to… Continue reading Ease the Burden

New COVID-19 Triage Center

Even in a pandemic, Lions are finding ways to serve and LCIF is supporting them. In Paramaribo, Suriname, s’Lands Hospital was at full capacity. Its triage units did not have any more room for patients. In fact, they began to expand their dermatology unit to create more beds for patients with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Nurses… Continue reading New COVID-19 Triage Center

Adoption of a School

Member of Lions Club Lucknow Century District 321B1 Lion Dr. Rama Kant (Retired professor of King Georg’s Medical University, Lucknow) saw a child searching some food in the spread over trash, and garbage of local residents in Vikas Nagar. Dogs and pigs were competing with him. They talked to that child Ghisa, an 8-year-old student… Continue reading Adoption of a School