Serving youth is one of the causes Campaign 100: LCIF Empowering Service will support. Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) wants to serve 200+ million people each year while increasing service impact, fighting diabetes, and expanding our global causes. This story is one example of how Lions can positively change the lives of children through the assistance of an LCIF grant.
Where There is a Need, There is a Lion
A student’s eagerness to learn can quickly diminish when their school environment is distracting, unclean, and unsafe. After Typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda), Tagdon Elementary School was destroyed. Lions in Germany wanted to help. They raised funds and secured a grant from Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) to renovate and expand the school. In the Philippines, Bulan Lions Club, a nearby club that regularly visits the school, was also able to contribute to the school’s exciting new beginning.
Typhoon Haiyan left Tagdon Elementary flooded and covered in debris.
students, all of whom now have a safe school environment that is conducive to learning. In addition to these students, more than 1,000 students from five surrounding elementary schools will use the library, computer room, and health clinic, and more than 4,750 additional community members will benefit from the health clinic each year. Further proof that kindness matters, this project has helped cultivate a happy and healthy community.
“This has been our hope [and] our help for the Filipinos because we know that by helping them [to have] a good education, we are helping them and their families. And, of course, the whole country, actually,” says Dr. Marlene Ruth Hermo-Koslowsky, friend of Lions and former Tagdon Elementary School student.
This story was originally published in the July/August 2018 issue of LION Magazine.
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Visit LCIF.org/BE100 to learn how Campaign 100 will serve youth through improved access to quality education, vital health services, inclusive social and recreational opportunities, and positive development programs.
