St. Johns
Lions Club

Humanitarian Service Programs

Funds raised by the St. Johns Lions club are used to help many humanitarian and community service programs. The major categories are: Vision & Hearing, Youth, Community Service, and People with Special Needs. Following are examples of projects supported by the St Johns Lions club.

• ¬†Leader Dog for the Blind
• Braille Transcribing
• Michigan Lions All State Band
• Michigan Eye Bank
• College Scholarships based on community service and Academics
• Support Local Boy Scout troops.
• Support Senior Center
• Eye glasses program for needy youngsters
• Hospice program
• P.E.E.R. Program
• Providing funding for a handicap lift to enable physically handicapped persons to use the High School Swimming Pool for physical therapy.
• Have constructed a number of special ramps at homes of handicapped needy citizens.
• Provided computer equipment at Briggs Library for visually impaired people

Knights of the Blind

A Speech by Helen Keller at 1925 International Lions Convention challenged Lions to be the "Knights of the Blind". As a result, Lions focus has been to help blind and vision impaired people thought the world. In recent years, working with the deaf and hearing impaired has been added as a Lions challenge. Lions activities also include drug prevention and education programs, diabetes detection and research, citizenship, educational, health and social service programs, International youth camp and youth exchange programs, and a myriad of other local Community Service and Humanitarian programs undertaken by individual Lions clubs throughout the world.