Lions of Georgia
Savannah, Georgia

 

For nearly 100 years, our members have worked on projects designed to prevent blindness, restore eyesight and improve eye care for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Lions volunteer to take part in sight projects that have:

  1. Helping halt the spread of trachoma in Ethiopia by providing 10 million doses of the sight-saving drug azithromycin annually.

  2. Prevented serious vision loss for more than 30 million people worldwide.

  3. Improve eye care for 100 million people by training more than 650,000 eye care professions and building 315 eye hospitals.

  4. Distributed more than 147 million treatments for river blindness.

  5. Provided nearly 8 million cataract surgeries.

  6. Saved the sight of more than 14 million children by providing eye screenings, glasses and other treatments through Sight for Kids.

  7. Established or strengthened pediatric eye care centers that have helped more than 120 million children.

  8. Vaccinated 41 million children in Africa against measles - a leading cause of childhood blindness.

Update:

In November of 2006, the Lions Lighthouse started a new vision clinic program. This program provides qualifying patients three very important vision services:

    1. Full dilated eye exam (performed by either an ophthalmologist or optometrist).
    2. One pair of eyeglasses every 3 years.
    3. Follow-up care for chronic eye conditions, such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.

There are several goals that the Lions Lighthouse would like to meet with this program:

    1. To address the vision needs of the uninsured and financially needy in Georgia.
    2. To deliver professional vision services throughout these sites on a consistent basic.
    3. To increase Lion involvement throughout the state in addressing the program of vision needs.