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Lions club members are men and women who strive
to make a difference in their local community as well as in communities
worldwide. Their volunteer efforts go beyond the support of
vision care, to addressing unmet health and education needs worldwide.
Mission Statement
To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for
humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community
involvement and international cooperation. Lions International Purposes
- To Create
and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of
the world
- To Promote the principles 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 without personal financial reward, and
to encourage efficiency and promote high
ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and
private endeavors.
Lions Code of Ethics
- To Show my faith in the worthiness
of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may
merit a reputation
for quality of 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 part.
- 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 not on account
of the service performed
by one 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, as 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.
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