| Leader Dogs for the Blind | Founded by three Detroit area Lions Clubs members in 1939, Leader Dogs for the Blind provides guide dogs to people who are blind and visually impaired to enhance their mobility, independence and quality of life. Each year, over 270 students attend our 26-day residential training program to be paired with a guide dog. This is a life-changing event that opens the door to independence, safety and self-worth for many of our students. |
| Lions Clubs International | Our 46,000 clubs and 1.35 million members make us the world's largest service club organization. We're also one of the most effective. Our members do whatever is needed to help their local communities. Everywhere we work, we make friends. With children who need eyeglasses, with seniors who don’t have enough to eat and with people we may never meet. |
| Lions Clubs International Foundation | We support the compassionate humanitarian service of 1.35 million Lions in 206 countries by providing grant funding and developing programs that improve lives around the world. Please join us in bringing hope and change to communities everyday, everywhere. |
| Lions Eye Bank of Texas | Lions Eye Bank of Texas at Baylor College of Medicine is located in Houston, Texas within the Texas Medical Center. Founded in 1953 by Baylor and the Lions Clubs of the Texas Gulf Coast , the Lions Eye Bank of Texas provides ocular tissues to surgeons across the Texas Gulf Coast and the United States and throughout North and South America. |
| Lions Project: Canine Companions for Independence | LPCCI is a non-profit organization formed in 1983 to educate, raise funds and to seek puppy raisers for Canine Companions for Independence. Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) pioneered the concept of training specially-bred dogs to help people with disabilities other than blindness. Founded in 1975, CCI was the first in-depth program of its kind. Not only does CCI teach dogs the skills to bring independence to people with disabilities, they teach people with disabilities the skills needed to master an exceptional dog. |
| Lions World Services for the Blind | LWSB has served more than 9,500 individuals from all 50 states and 58 other countries. We have gradually expanded our services to become the most comprehensive rehabilitation center in the world, offering a complete personal adjustment program, 10 vocational courses, a vision rehabilitation clinic and training, an assistive technology learning center, job placement assistance, and a college preparatory program. LWSB is accredited by the National Accreditation Council for agencies serving people with Blindness or Visual Impairments. |
| Texas Eyeglass Recycling Center | The center organizes optical training teams composed of Lions, doctors and opticians to work with Lions of multiple districts in developing countries. TLERC has developed the following training programs: How to create and operate an optical clinic with used eyeglasses; How to create and operate a new and used eyeglass distribution center; How to create and operate a finishing lab; Photo-screening; |
| Texas Lions Camp | Providing camping experiences at no charge, to children with medical conditions since 1949. Texas Lions Camp is a residential camping facility for children with physical disabilities, type 1 diabetes and cancer. The Camp is located on over 500 acres in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, and is designed to introduce the "Can Do" philosophy to children dealing with special medical conditions. |
| Texas Lions Foundation | TLF concentrates its efforts in two areas: humanitarian services and disaster relief. The Foundation strives to support projects that, while falling into one of these two categories, also have long-term and far reaching effects, and promote the objectives of the Texas Lions Foundation. Overall, the Foundation maintains a strong commitment to helping people achieve their own potential, and to implementing projects that make permanent and positive changes. Projects are favored that provide benefits to as many people as possible. |
| Texas MD-2 | Texas is truly the birthplace of Lionism. Lions International came into official being in Texas at the first convention on October, 1917. This convention was held at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas and the name "Lion" was accepted as the name of our organization. Texas, from the inception of Lions International, has always occupied a prominent place in the affairs of Lions International. This dedication to leadership and innovation continues today. Texas has 30,000 members serving in more than 980 clubs, 16 Districts supporting Lions Clubs International |
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