Welcome to our club web site. The Tellico Village Lions Club is comprised of men and women who volunteer their time to humanitarian causes serving the community and those less fortunate worldwide. Please take a moment to look over the various service projects and fund raising events that we do for the residents of Tellico Village and the surrounding community.
The Lions Motto is “We Serve” and as members of this club, we are proud to serve.
If you would like more information on how you can volunteer and become a member of our club, please go to our “Contact” page and complete and submit the form. A member of our club will be happy to contact you.
For nearly 100 years, our members have worked to prevent blindness, restore eyesight and improve eye care for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Lions volunteer to take part in sight projects that are:
• Saving the sight of more than 14 million children by providing eye screenings, glasses, and other treatments through
Sight for Kids.
• Preventing serious vision loss for more than 30 million people worldwide.
• Providing more than 7 million cataract surgeries.
• Establishing or strengthening pediatric eye care centers that have helped more than 120 million children.
• Distributing more than 147 million treatments for river blindness.
• Vaccinating 41 million children in Africa against measles – a leading cause of childhood blindness.
• Improving eye care for 100 million people by training more than 650,000 eye care professionals and building 315 eye hospitals.
• Helping halt the spread of trachoma in Ethiopia by providing 10 million doses of the sight-saving drug azithromycin.
Sight for Kids.
• Preventing serious vision loss for more than 30 million people worldwide.
• Providing more than 7 million cataract surgeries.
• Establishing or strengthening pediatric eye care centers that have helped more than 120 million children.
• Distributing more than 147 million treatments for river blindness.
• Vaccinating 41 million children in Africa against measles – a leading cause of childhood blindness.
• Improving eye care for 100 million people by training more than 650,000 eye care professionals and building 315 eye hospitals.
• Helping halt the spread of trachoma in Ethiopia by providing 10 million doses of the sight-saving drug azithromycin.
Since 1990, Lions have donated more than US$350 million to help provide vision for all.