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"Lions Clubs - Ready to Help - Worldwide

Whenever a Lions Club Gets Together, problems get smaller. And, communities get better.  That's because we help where help is needed in our communities and around the world with unmatched integrity and energy. 

The World's Largest Service Organization

Our 46.000 clubs and 1.35 million members make us the world's largest servivce club organization.  We are 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."

directly from : www.lionsclubs.org/EN/about-lions/index.php

LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL MISSION STATEMENT

"To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions Clubs."

LIONS CODE OF ETHICS 

To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application tot he end that I ma merit a reputation for quality service.

To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my paert.

To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's, to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.

Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.

To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.

Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.

To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.

To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.

LION INTERNATIONAL PURPOSES

To Organize, charter and supervise service clubs to be known as Lions Clubs.

To Coordinate the activities and standardize the administration of Lions Clubs.

To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.

To Promote the principals of good government and good citizenship

To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.

To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.

To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.

To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community with out personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works, private endeavors

(This entire section is directly excerpted from the Lion Clubs Distrciut 4-B 2014-2015 Directory)