Who are the Lions

Lions Club International (LCI)

More than 100 years of service to the community.

Lions Clubs International (LCI) is the world’s largest service club and one of the largest NGOs in the world, with a network of nearly 1.5 million members in 46,000 clubs in 210 countries.

Lions Clubs International is active in a wide range of social areas.

We are particularly alert to low vision, malnutrition, environmental issues, youth, especially childhood cancer and measles eradication, disability and diabetes.

For more information go to: https://www.lionsclubs.org/en/about-us/our-organization/about-lions-international

Our goal is to be able to help 200 million people a year worldwide.

In addition to social assistance, we respond to any natural disaster where our front-line assistance can be useful, and we regularly commit to helping people return to a dignified life by helping in some cases to build clinics, schools or even houses. We carry out these interventions through our local clubs to ensure that our funds are put to good use. As a result, we spend nearly 900 million euros annually in grants and donations.

The mission of Lions

Create and promote a spirit of understanding among all people in order to satisfy humanitarian needs through disinterested assistance and encourage active participation in the life of the community and international cooperation.

Lions Clubs International Purpose

  • 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 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.

Code of honor

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 of 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 to another, but that true friendship demands nothing
but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS 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