📜 History
- The Munster Lions Club was chartered on January 12, 1938, becoming part of Lions Clubs International (LCI)—the world’s largest service club organization, founded in 1917 with the motto “We Serve.”
- As a local chapter within Lions International, the club continues the global mission of community service, particularly in support of vision care, health, youth, and humanitarian causes.
🎗️ Local Projects & Accomplishments
The Munster Lions Club is active in a variety of service and fundraising activities that benefit Town of Munster community:
🥞 Community Fundraisers
- The club holds annual events such as its Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser, which supports multiple service projects each year.
- And the Steak & Chicken Grill bringing residents together also raising funds for Munster community.
👀 Vision and Health Service
- The club participates in vision and hearing screenings (for children and adults) at community events and fundraisers, supporting Lions International’s long-standing focus on sight conservation.
- They also encourage community members to donate eyeglasses and hearing aids for recycling and redistribution to those in need.
🍽️ Community Support
- Members have volunteered in broader support activities such as helping at food banks—e.g., volunteering at the Foodbank of Northwest Indiana, assisting hundreds of families with meals.
🌎 Part of a Larger Impact
While the Munster Lions Club focuses on local service, it’s part of the larger Lions movement, whose international accomplishments include:
- Providing millions of vision screenings and supporting programs to prevent blindness.
- Distributing more than US$1 billion in grants through the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) to address vision, youth, disaster relief, health, and humanitarian needs globally.
🧠 Mission
Like all Lions clubs, the Munster Lions operate under the Lions’ motto “We Serve,” engaging volunteers to help address needs in their community and promote health, welfare, and quality of life for residents.
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.
