Lions Clubs International Projects
► Collect used eyeglasses & hearing aids
► Support Lions International Foundation for assistance to victims of world disasters
► Support Lions humanitarian world-wide projects
► Support Lion Camp Dorset dialysis camp
► Support Lions CNIB Camp Joseph
► Support Lions Diabetes programs
► Support Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guide School with annual sponsorship of DogGuide & recipient team
► 100% Lions Club re: Life Membership in Lions Foundation of Canada
► Support Lions Clubs Camp Kirk Foundation for children with learning disabilities
► Support Lions SightFirst programs to eliminate preventable blindness & assist those with sight disabilities
It's a stark fact. By the time you finish reading this page, one child somewhere in the world will have gone blind. One goes blind every minute. Half-a-million will have lost their sight by the end of the year. Childhood blindness is only one part of the global vision crisis. If nothing is done, experts say that the world's blind population could double from 37 million to 74 million by 2020.
But Lions will not allow "nothing to be done." True to their commitment to be "knights of the blind," Lions launched Campaign SightFirst II to prevent this tragedy. In 2005, CSFII set out to raise at least US$150 million to continue and expand the extraordinary work of SightFirst, Lions' worldwide program to combat preventable blindness.
CSFII ended in July, 2008 with a total of $200,320,000. being raised to prevent blindness and restore the eyesight to almost 35 million people throughout the world.
Since 1990, SightFirst has:
► Awarded US$211 million for 896 projects in 90 countries
► Prevented serious vision loss for 20 million
► Provided 80.5 million treatments for river blindness
► Restored sight to 7.3 million with cataracts
► Improved eye-care services for hundreds of millions
► Built or expanded 300 eye hospitals, clinics and wards
► Upgraded 337 eye centers with equipment
► Trained 345,000 ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, other professional eye-care workers and village health workers
► Provided management training for 115 facilities
► Launched world's first-ever initiative to combat childhood blindness in partnership with the World Health Organization.
► Thirty pediatric eye-care centers have been established and have strengthened or improved vision care for more than 71 million children.