WHEN WERE WE CHARTERED?

The Lions Club of Downtown Kingston was chartered on the 26^th day of February, 1991 by Lions Clubs International and the ceremony was completed on the 16th March, 1991. We were sponsored by the Lions Club of Kingston.

VISION STATEMENT

To touch the lives of those within our community through the extension of the “We Serve” philosophy and to channel our efforts to ensure that Lions Club International remains the premiere service organiSation worldwide.

THEME

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much” – Helen Keller

CLUB ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS:

1. Youth Empowerment
2. Scholarship and Youth Support
3. Leo Development (The Leo clubs are the official youth arm of the Lions Club Movement. This was conceived in 1957 with the first Leo club being formed in 1967. (Typical ages range from 12-30).
4. Disaster Awareness and Environment Awareness
5. Fundraising Projects
6. Senior Citizens & Outreach Programmes
7. Special Health Services
8. Sight Conservation
9. Diabetes and Footcare

LIONS CLUBS OBJECTS

• TO CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the people 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 endeavours.

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 to 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, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labour 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.