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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Description

• Mission:

  Lions Clubs International Foundation's (LCIF) mission is to support the efforts of Lions clubs worldwide in serving their local communities and the world community as they carry out essential humanitarian service projects.

• Membership/Affiliates:

  In the United States, there are approximately 12,335 Lions clubs with more than 351,350 members. Worldwide, there are more than 1.35 million members in 46,105 clubs in over 206 countries.

• Programs/Activities:
  SightFirst is the Lions global vision program that supports the development of comprehensive eye care systems to fight the major causes of blindness and vision loss and to care for the blind and visually impaired. This program funds high-quality, stainable projects that deliver eye care services, develop infrastructure, train personnel, and/or provide rehabilitation and education in underserved communities. Moving forward, SightFirst will support eye health education efforts in two ways:
  

  • By developing national-level eye health education initiatives in middle- and high-income countries, where adequate eye care services exist yet eye care materials do not.
  • As an education component of SightFirst comprehensive eye care projects in low-income countries.
  
  

  The LCIF Core 4 Diabetes program enables Lions to address the growing epidemic of diabetes, while in collaboration with healthcare providers in their community.

• Publications
  
  New Lions eye health materials will be cobranded with NEHEP for release in 2011.

• Social Media:

  Twitter: http://twitter.com/lionsclubsorg

  Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lionsclubs

  YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/lionsclubsorg

Date Last Updated
January 2012