Lions Presentation
Lions International PDF Print
The organization came into being in 1917, in the USA, at the initiative of a businessman called Melvin Jones, the first person to have founded a LIONS club.

After that, numerous clubs appeared throughout the world. Nowadays, the organization is present in 178 countries of the world, being made up of 45,000 clubs, with a total of 1,5 million members. The headquarters of the organization are located in Oak Brook, Illinois.

There is a district in every country, run by a governer elected for one year, who coordinates the activity of all the clubs in the respective territory.

Every year, The International Convention is organized. This elects the international president of the organization. The Association of Lions Clubs is a founding member of the United Nations Organization. The ”Lions Day” is celebrated every year at the United Nations. The international president is a deputy secreatry general at the United Nations.

The official name of the association is ”The International Association of Lions Club”. The name”Lions” has been chosen because the lion symbolizes qualities such as courage, power, energy and loyalty.

Mission declaration: To create and to promote a spirit of understanding between peoples, identifying humanitarian needs, offering voluntary help and fostering participation in the life of the community and in international cooperation.

The Lions’ logo is ”We serve!” It was adopted at the 1954 international convention and chosen from 6.000 suggestions made by members throughout the world.

The slogan ”Freedom, Intelligence, Security of our Nation” was adopted at the 1919 congress.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         We serve!
 
The Lions code of ethics PDF Print
  • To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people.
  • To show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation, by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service in my domain of expertise.
  • To seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
  • To remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
  • Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
  • To hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
  • Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
  • To aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
  • To be careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.