Lion clubs meet in Brazzaville

Cabinet members of District 403-A2 of Lions Clubs International (LCI) have just completed their third meeting for the 2012-2013 Lionistic year in Brazzaville, Congo, with a call on service clubs, workplace, community and church organisations to work together as teams with one purpose to achieve their set goals.

The meeting, which was chaired by the Governor for District 403-A2 of LCI, Lion (Mrs) Gloria Esi Lassey, brought together member states, including Togo, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra-Leone and Liberia.

Lion Lassey said she had chartered eight clubs already, and promised that three more clubs would be chartered to bring to 11 the number of new clubs to be brought on board during her tenure.

She said the District had been able to process and obtain funding for nine projects this Lionistic year, while it had increased the number of Melvin Jones and Progressive Melvin Jones Fellows by 20.

Lion Lassey noted that she encouraged leadership training teams to train as often as they possibly could and that was followed with the training of zone trainers and trainer of trainers in a day’s seminar in Lome.  

With the assistance of some of her region and zone chairmen, she said she had been able to increase the number of clubs from 83 at the beginning of July last year to 90 currently.

Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organisation, with its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States of America.

The organisation focuses on the prevention of blindness and the preservation of eyesight and also undertakes other activities such as diabetes awareness creation programmes. It also provides basic amenities for needy communities and the less privileged in society.

Ghana belongs to District 403-A2 and is also under Region 34, which includes Sierra-Leone and Liberia. There are two zones in Ghana known as Zone 341 and Zone 342.