Desperate need. That’s one way to describe the situation in Brooklyn, New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, which happens to be home to International President Douglas Alexander. Historically a disadvantaged neighborhood, Bed-Stuy, as it’s known to locals, needed an ambulance, residents often waiting 45 minutes for help to arrive. With demand outpacing resources, people were dying. Eager… Continue reading LCIF Helps Save Lives in IP Alexander’s Community
Story Category: KO 1 - USA
District 13 OH4 Diabetes Grant
District 13 OH4 received a $60,000 diabetes grant to renovate 12 cabins at Camp Ho Mita Koda, a camp for diabetic children located in Newbury, Ohio. The cabins needed new roofs, new wiring, insulation, fans, doors, and interior siding. Lions have volunteered at the camp planting trees, updating lighting in the dining hall, cutting &… Continue reading District 13 OH4 Diabetes Grant
Helping During Hurricane Henri
In MD20 NYS, LCIF helped us build a warehouse and fill it with emergency supplies. We were also able to purchase two trailers for supply transportation. When Hurricane Henri came up the coast, one of our Lions came to the warehouse and filled the small trailer with supplies to aid in the communities that were… Continue reading Helping During Hurricane Henri
You Never Know Who You Will Serve
Just a few days before Christmas, our club received a phone call regarding a young mother of two with twins on the way any day and was told her husband had left her! It only took a few minutes to make phone calls to get approval to purchase food and gifts for this needy family.… Continue reading You Never Know Who You Will Serve
The Rest of the Story
A Lion’s daughter starts a program to give hygiene items to poor kids in our county.
Lions Environment/Humanitarian Project
District 2-S2 held a multi-club service project at the 3rd Ward Chess Park Butterfly Lounge! This lot is a historically violent corner. Since the park was built, crime has gone down immensely because a full park of witnesses stops criminals from committing crimes. District 2-S2 Governor Lisa Free Martin led Lions from 12 clubs across… Continue reading Lions Environment/Humanitarian Project
Lions KidSight USA Project SEE CLEARLY 2021
The COVID pandemic has created many challenges for everyone. Foremost among these is that our children were doing more and more remote learning. One hidden, potential consequence of our children not attending school in person is that early childhood vision health screenings were postponed for millions of children. An estimated 25 million children have now… Continue reading Lions KidSight USA Project SEE CLEARLY 2021
International Director
This is a Campaign 100 Story. As an ID I was challenged to do something ”fun” to raise money for Campaign 100. I spoke with PID Jim Cavallaro and we agreed to shave our mustaches with over 100 years of combined growth if we raised $10,000 from the sale of $25 tickets. We started in… Continue reading International Director
Synundersökningar i Utah
Se hur Lions medlemmar bringar viktig ögonvård till oförsäkrade barn.
Blåbärsodling i Albany
LCIF och Anthem Foundation ökade tillgången på hälsosam mat.