Editing Lions Clubs International (section)

===Service projects===
Lions Clubs plan and participate in a variety of service projects. Examples include donations to [[palliative care|hospices]],<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4185894.stm | title= Lions share flower carpet riches | work= BBC News | date= 25 August 2005 | access-date= 2007-06-07 }}</ref> or community campaigns such as Message in a Bottle, a United Kingdom and Ireland initiative which places a plastic bottle with critical medical information inside the refrigerators of vulnerable people.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4668172.stm | title= Scheme not bottling out of aid | work= BBC News | date= 31 January 2006 | access-date= 2007-06-07 }}</ref> Money is also raised for international purposes. Some of this is donated in reaction to events such as the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] and the [[Typhoon Haiyan|2013 Typhoon Haiyan]] (Yolanda). Other money is used to support international campaigns, coordinated by the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF), such as Sight First and Lions World Sight Day, which was launched in 1998 to draw world media attention to the plight of sight loss in the developing world.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/474116.stm | title= Webcast fights blindness | work= BBC News | date= 13 October 1999 | access-date= 2007-06-07 }}</ref>

Lions focus on work for the blind and visually impaired began when [[Helen Keller]] addressed the [[#International convention|international convention]] at [[Cedar Point]], [[Ohio]], on 30 June 1925 and charged Lions to be ''Knights of the Blind''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helen Keller's speech to the Lions Club advocating for the post-WWII needs of the blind April 22, 1947 |url=https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive?a=d&d=A-HK02-B213-F05-004 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.afb.org}}</ref>

Lions also conduct community hearing- and [[cancer]]-screening projects.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Governor |first=MJF Lion Prashant A. Patil, District |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Df0sDQAAQBAJ&dq=Lions+Clubs+hearing+and+cancer+projects&pg=PA51 |title=Lions 323A3 District Directory (2016-17): Digital Edition |date=2016-10-02 |publisher=Signpost Celfon.In Technology |page=51 |language=en}}</ref> In [[Perth]], Western Australia, they have conducted hearing screening for over 30 years and provided seed funding for the Lions Ear and Hearing Institute established September 9, 2001, a center of excellence in the diagnosis, management, and research of ear and [[Deafness|hearing disorder]]s.<ref>{{cite web | title= About The Institute | url= http://www.earscience.org.au/institute/index.php | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061104173945/http://www.earscience.org.au/institute/index.php | url-status= dead | archive-date= 2006-11-04 | work= Ear Science Institute Australia | access-date= 2007-06-23 }}</ref> In Perth, Lions have also assisted in the establishment of the [[Lions Eye Institute]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hadden |first=Dr Bruce |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_WcDwAAQBAJ&dq=Lions+Club+Perth+Lions+Eye+Institute&pg=PT359 |title=Eye Surgeons And Surgery In New Zealand |date=2014-11-07 |publisher=Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |isbn=978-1-77553-806-6 |language=en}}</ref> In [[Brisbane]], Queensland, the Lions Medical Research Foundation provides funding to a number of researchers. [[Ian Frazer]]'s initial work, leading to the development of a [[HPV vaccine]] for the [[human papillomavirus]] which could lead to [[cervical cancer]], was funded by the Lions Medical Research Foundation.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Leavenworth |first1=Jianmei Wu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G1gEAAAQBAJ&dq=funded+by+Lions+Medical+Research+Foundation&pg=PA105 |title=Immune Cell Lineage Reprogramming in Cancer |last2=Shi |first2=Lewis Z. |last3=Wang |first3=Xi |last4=Wei |first4=Haiming |date=2022-02-22 |publisher=Frontiers Media SA |isbn=978-2-88974-473-2 |page=105 |language=en}}</ref>

Lions Clubs International has supported the work of the [[United Nations]] since that organization's inception in 1945, when it was one of the [[non-governmental organization]]s invited to assist in the drafting of the [[United Nations Charter]] in [[San Francisco, California]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lu |first=Chris |date=July 10, 2023 |title=Remarks by Ambassador Chris Lu at the 105th Lions Club International Convention in Boston, Massachusetts |url=https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-chris-lu-at-the-105th-lions-club-international-convention-in-boston-massachusetts/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929192221/https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-chris-lu-at-the-105th-lions-club-international-convention-in-boston-massachusetts/ |archive-date=September 29, 2023 |access-date=March 8, 2024 |website=United States Mission to the United Nations}}</ref>