Success of Lions Services

“WE SERVE” is the motto of Lions Clubs International (LCI). LCI is the world largest service organization with over 1.3 million members worldwide.
LCI prides itself with a very long history of services to communities all over the world. LCI was founded in 1917, which is 91 years ago.

Lions Clubs all over the world will key in the services and service categories that they have successfully completed. The administrative office of LCI gather and compute these data.
Below is the summary of the computed data for Lions services for fiscal year of 2007-2008.

The average Lions club donated US$13,375 to charitable causes. This represents an estimated worldwide total of US$601 million based on 44,997 Lions clubs as of June 30, 2008.
The average Lions club provided 739 volunteer service hours to the community. This represents an estimated worldwide total of 33 million volunteer service hours based on 44,997 Lions clubs as of June 30, 2008.

The most implemented service categories were:
1. Community Services 25%
2. Youth services 22%
3. Sight 17%
4. Health 11%
5. Environment 9%
6. International Relations 4%
7. Diabetes 3%
8. Hearing 2%
9. “Other services” 3%

Lions Clubs secretaries worldwide reported completing the following projects:
1. Aid to the elderly 39%
2. Youth recreation/sports 30%
3. Eyeglass collection 30%
4. Community clean-ups 30%
5. Recreation 27%
6. Blood donation 27%
7. Scholarships 26%
8. Citizenship 24%
9. Disaster relief 24%
10. Culture/the Arts 22%

http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/pdfs/activity_report_results_2007_08.pdf