The South Boston Lions Club is actively involved in preventing blindness and maintaining sight throughout Halifax County.  Here are some of the projects that our members partcipate in:

• Provide eye examinations and glasses to needy individuals

• Collect used eyeglasses for recycling

• Vision screening of public school and Head Start children

• Health Fair vision screening for adults and children

Below is a list of some of the organizations that South Boston Lions Club donates to.  One hundred percent of the funds collected by the South Boston Lions Club from fruit sales, ice cream sales, broom sales, and other fundraisers goes directly to the organizations listed below. 

• Prevent Blindness Mid-Atlantic

• Dominion Eye Foundation

• Leader Dogs for the blind

• Burkeville Lodge for the Blind

• Dixie Youth Baseball

• Bland Memorial Scholarship Program

• South Boston/Halifax County Museum

• The Prizery

• Lions Club International Foundation and Lions Clubs of Virginia Foundation

• Boy Scout Troop 497

• Virginia Lions Hearing and Research Center

• YMCA of South Boston

• Patrick Henry Boys and Girls Plantation

• Hospice of Halifax County

• Halifax County Cancer Assocation

• Halifax County United Way

• Expiremental Aircraft Association Chapter 1442