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Lions Quest is a schools-based life-skills program for children form kindergarten to 12th grade. Youths grow into solid citizens when they learn how to make responsible decisions, communicate effectively and avoid drugs. That’s where Lions Quest fits in.
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The objective of the Leo Club Program is:
"...to provide the youth of the world with an opportunity for development and contribution, individually and collectively, as responsible members of the local, national and international community."
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Lions International Peace Poster Contest: Lions clubs sponsor this art contest for students, ages 11-13. The grand prize winner receives a trip for him or herself and two family members and the sponsoring Lions club president to the award ceremony at the United Nations in New York. Peace Poster Brochure Contest Deadlines
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Lions Clubs International Youth Exchange: Sponsored by a Lions club, young people (between the ages of 15 and 21) travel to another country to learn about another culture. Exchanges last between four and six weeks and can occur in any of more than 190 countries. Often, exchangees also participate in a Lions Clubs International or Lion’s District Youth Camp.
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Multiple District 4 Student Speakers Contest will issue awards to high school age contestants in excess of $105,000.00 this year alone. The Grand Prize Winner will receive in excess of $21,000.00. The 2010 Student Speaker topic is “Universal Healthcare – How will it affect us?”
Contact any California Lions Club to enter. |
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Lions Camp at Teresita Pines is located at Wrightwood, CA and is operated as a 401 C(3) charity. The camp may be booked for use by anyone if dates are available. The camp hosts use periods for groups of Deaf Children, LEOs, Visiting Youth Exchange Students, and several church and foundation groups. teresitapines@hughes.net |
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Friends Across the Border is a District 4-L5 project. In essence it is our mobile eye clinic. Eye clinics are held at K-57, a prison, and at the Tecate Lions Club several times each year. Eye clinics have also been held in farm areas of the Coachella Valley, locations in the Imperial Valley, Barstow, Riverside, Yucaipa and more. E-Mail: friends@friendsacrosstheborder.org Phone: (951) 927-8835 |
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Lions Eye Banks perform valuable sight-saving functions. A staff of professionals at the eye banks recover, evaluate and distribute human eye tissue for vision restoration, research and education. Eye surgeons rely on eye banks to supply them with eye tissue for sight-saving procedures for persons who have eye disease or injury. Lions have been providing support for eye banks for nearly 65 years. Currently, there are 53 official Lions Eye Banks throughout the world. |
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The Lions In Sight Warehouse is located in Vallejo, CA. The warehouse is staffed by Lions volunteers. Used glasses are collected throughout the west and forwarded to the warehouse. The glasses are examined, graded, cleaned, & packaged by prescription prior to shipment to permanent Lions Eye Care Centers around the world, as well as Lions Sight Missions and non Lions clinics. As of December 2008, Lions In Sight has conducted 182 clinic missions in 31 countries and has helped over 188 thousand people improve their vision and lives. |
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Here in our own District 4-L5 we have two eyeglass recycle centers. The Hemet Lions Club operates one of them. The other is the Percy Parish Sight House in Rialto. Although both are operated primarily by the sponsor clubs as shown above no volunteers are turned away and all eyeglasses are accepted. The glasses are cleaned, graded by prescription, and packaged.
The glasses are then supplied to our Friends Across the Border project for use domestically and in Northern Mexico. Excess glasses are shipped to Lions in Sight for immediate shipment as needed around the globe. |
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Lions Clubs International Foundation began the SightFirst program soliciting funds to be used specifically for eyesight programs around the world.. SightFirst is Lions' most ambitious and most successful initiative ever. Thanks to SightFirst, Lions have restored sight to 7.5 million people through cataract surgeries, prevented serious vision loss for 30 million people, and improved eye care services for hundreds of millions. Sadly, 80 percent of the world's blind were needlessly without sight. Through SightFirst, and SightFirst II Lions have prevented blindness by supporting cataract surgeries, helping expand eye hospitals and clinics, educating the public, distributing sight-saving medication, training eye care professionals and establishing sustainable eye care systems in underserved areas. On average, about every $6.00 in donations has resulted in a person with vision restored or saved from blindness. |
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Lions Clubs International Foundation supports the humanitarian work of Lions clubs. The Foundation aids Lions in making a greater impact in their local communities, as well as around the world. Through LCIF, Lions ease pain and suffering and bring healing and hope to people worldwide.
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