Our Club and Mission

The Tellico Village Lions Club was chartered on November 22, 1999 by Lions Clubs International, and incorporated by the State of Tennessee, as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2003.

Past District Governor, Bill Watkins (now Past International Director) from the Loudon Lions Club was a Guiding Lion and served to nurture the new Tellico Village Lions Club during its infancy. The original President (King Lion) was Lion Joe Klint followed by Lion Jerry Pridemore who served several terms as President. Lions Howard Higby, a charter member, is still acive in the club today.

Today the club averages about 60 to 70 members, and is increasing with the continuing growth of Tellico Village.

To better understand our club, it’s history and  rich heritage of  community service projects and community outreach initiatives, please click on the Lions logo below. This video was created for our 20th Anniversary Celebration on November 22, 2019.

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Lions International’s  History and Mission

For more information on Lions Club International’s  History and Mission refer to their website: http://www.lionsclubs.org or view some videos by clicking on each of the Lions logos below:

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Saving Sight for Millions Worldwide

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.

Since 1999 the Tellico Village Lions have raised and made over $1,000,000 in contributions to various Lions programs and local charities.

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