Lions Club:
Lions club is a club that takes care of the less privileged. In our service, we are trying to remind those who are wasteful that there are a lot of people out there who are hungry and needed to be helped. Along with the objective of Lions club, when you are training people, you try to bring the best out to them.
If you are trained, you will be able to look around you and around your community and you would definitely realise that there are needs that need to be attended to.
MR OZAIN AGBAGA, General Hospital District:
I am a community voluntary worker and serving humanity is my passion. The Lions club do a lot of good works. It is not complicated as people think, especially if you are watching from outside. They have great projects that would always impact humanity and fill the gap where government is lacking.
LION COMRADE LUCKY, from Benin Oregbeni Lions Club:
Being a Comrade, I love to serve humanity. When you notice some less privileged that need assistance, you don’t wait to report the issue so that they can get assistance, I am passionate about helping the needy.
I am very happy to undergo the training of the Lions club. It makes you become responsible and you meet different kinds of people. Those who are impressed by your own conduct as a member would be motivated to join the club. When people come to me, I normally tell them to do everything possible to join good clubs.
LION (MRS.) MONICA OKAFOR, District 404 ASABA:
In my club we carry out services like environmental sanitation, creating awareness and helping those who have health issues like eye problems. We do give eye glasses to them.
Such humanitarian service motivated me into joining the Lion club in Asaba. I will encourage every Nigerian to be a member of the Lions club. It is a place where you see yourself serving humanity. And it is also a place where you learn how to give.
LION (MRS) COMRADE ADEFUNKE ESAN, Ikorodu Metropolitan Lions Club Secretary:
This is a convention of the District 404A1 which covers five states in Nigeria. We want more Lions to join our team this year for us to do more humanitarian jobs. It is not easy to engage humanitarian service as people will have to part with their money. It also involves staking your time, talent and treasure.
Not long ago, the District Governor, Lion Okpeseyi Olatunbosun was at the Kabiyesi’s palace where the club donated about sixty eight eye glasses to the needy. Other clubs like Ikorodu Doyen Lions Club carried out three cataract operations for the needy at Ajayi hospital.
These are the types of humanitarian service we carry out. We just finished the hunger project where all clubs would go out there to give food to the needy. We are preaching that they should come and join because people are suffering. We need people to join us so that we can join hands together to save our people’s lives.
LION ADE LAWAN IDOWU, Maryland Lions Club, District 404b2:
I have a passion to serve and I observe that the experiences as relating to the clubs have not really changed in terms of the old and new members. There are similarities in activities and participation and we do practically the same thing in terms of message delivery.
We take care of the motherless babies, the abandoned ones and we visit the prisons.
LION PRINCESS ADEGOKE OLADEINDE, From Shagamu Metropolitan club:
I was motivated to join the lions club because when I was in Secondary school, I was in a fellowship group, where we give money to the needy and that was what developed my passion for giving.
I call on my fellow citizens to come and join hands with us so that we can help the needy.
ERNEST, Benin Royal Club, Edo:
What motivated me to join Lions club was hearing all the things they have done and still doing for the youths and their contributions in the community through helping to alleviate the sufferings of the needy. A Lions club member one day, in a vehicle I was also travelling in, paid the transport fare of a stranded passenger he did not know from anywhere such display of humanity struck something in me and made me to change my ways and perception about giving. I am proud to be a Lion.
LAWRENCE ISOKO, Warri Rubby Lions Club, Delta State:
This is a programme the Lions club do yearly and it is called District convention. We have multiple districts including 404AA, 404A2, 404B1, and 404B2. The yearly convention is a good one because an informed Lion is a better Lion and every training is an addition to what you already know. It comprises the training of new members, re-orientation and cabinet officers (club officers).
I am the region chairperson of region 9, Warri, Delta State. I attended certified Guiding Lions seminar, which enables a member to participate in appointing the District Governor. With that training, we would be able to guide the new members and mentor them.
LION KOFOWOROLA JEGEDE, Region 6, Akure, Ondo State:
I am the District coordinator of District 404A, Nigeria. In the Global leadership training being conducted, we are training the certified Lions and both new members and old members. The purpose of the training was to increase knowledge and make information available to Lions. Every time we are meeting, we normally have this type of training to educate and enlighten our members, both old and new. It helps to train the younger clubs in order to sustain them. Also, the new members are given the knitty-gritty of what it takes to be a Lion.
The certificate that is given at the end of the training is to show that they attended the training and to certify that indeed they are now qualified in that capacity as a Certified Guiding Lion (CGL).