Club Projects

Through the DCG program, our club qualified to receive back 15 percent of the unrestricted contributions our club made to LCIF to fund a project in Kenya. Through our partnership with the Lions Club of Bungoma in Kenya, the US$3,000 DCG provided improved access to water for the children at the Wema Children’s Centre in Bukembe. This project is a lifeline for the community since children and adults were previously getting sick from how the water was drawn. The community will learn how to operate and maintain the system so that it runs properly and provides clean water.

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In January 2023, BRHOB Lions donated supplies to HCS Family Services, a not-for-profit organization that works to prevent food insecurity and create an improved quality of life for the people they serve and their families.

In November 2022, the Burr Ridge-Hinsdale-Oak Brook Lions Club and other local clubs promoted diabetes awareness. Club members distributed flyers on diabetes prevention and offered diabetes screenings to attendees of the 60th anniversary celebration of the Oak Brook Park District. 

   

In October 2022, the Burr Ridge-Hinsdale-Oak Brook Lions Club donated more than 401 pounds of personal needs items to HCS Family Services. The donations enabled us to support between 325 and 350 families.

 

Our Lions club contributed toward the purchase of an ambulance that was procured by the Varanasi Hospital. 
This was a group effort funded by our club, the Lions Club of Varanasi and a District Community Grant from LCIF. 
100 to 150 patients in rural, poor areas are provided eye screening and patients needing cataract or other operations to the hospital for surgery. Without this service, the poor patients needing eye care will be abandoned by their families to a life of loneliness and misery.
Our Club donated $3,000, LCIF donated $3,000 and the rest was donated by Lions Club of Varanasi.