Health Programs

Focusing on Hearing, Diabetes and More

Lions are known as "knights of the blind," focusing on programs and projects that serve the blind or visually impaired – or aim to eliminate preventable and reversible blindness. But we also participate in other health programs and projects.

• Lions support local and large-scale efforts to control and prevent diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of vision loss in adults of working age in industrialized countries.

• Lions also focus on hearing, by arranging screenings, recreational camps and hearing aid recycling programs for children and adults.

• And around the world, many Lions service projects - especially those for children – have an impact on health. One example: Lions in the United Kingdom funded the first fully equipped ambulance for newborns in Bosnia and Herzegovina.