What Lions Do

• Washoe County Lions Sight Conservation/Lions Eye Foundation: To provide exams, eyeglasses; surgical procedures and follow up care for those in need.
• Eyeglasses: Eyeglass recycling and donation program.
• Lions ladies auxiliary: eyesight testing in elementary schools; third grade students in Washoe County are tested and those in need are given referrals.
• Hearing Foundation: To help the hearing impaired with testing and providing recycled hearing aids.
• White Cane Days: Sight First, raising funds for non-profit institutions serving the blind (all funds raised during this drive must go for sight related needs).
• Leader dogs for the blind: Founded by Lions in 1939, leader dogs has been “leading the way toward greater independence” by providing trained leader dogs as guides for the blind, visually impaired and deaf-blind.
• Camp Dat-So-La-Lee: A camp experience for ten year old children.
• City of Hope: Medical care for the needy, (cancer and crippling diseases).
• Diabetes: Diabetes awareness and prevention. Eye clinics and equipment: These are provided to third world countries.
• Lions-in-sight program: Fighting river blindness in third world countries.
• Wheelchair Foundation
• Flag Program: Lions clubs in America gave away, over 300,000 American flags last year to elementary school students; 6,500,000 in the last 30 years.
• High school student speaker contest: Up to $20,500.00 in scholarship each year for the winner, lesser amounts to runners up. Scholarships now total over $100,000.
• The Hugh O’Brian Youth (HOBY) Leadership Training Seminar for high school sophomores.
• Nevada Center for the Blind: Provides vocational training, counseling and socialization.
• Click here to learn about our Sri Lanka Project

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