Editing Lions Clubs International (section)

===International foundation===
[[Image:Lions Club Bridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Lions Club Bridge in [[Aachen]], Germany]]
Lions Clubs International Foundation is "Lions helping Lions serve the world".<ref name="lionsclubs2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/lcif_grants_programs.shtml |title=LCIF Grants & Programs |access-date=2007-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102164023/http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/lcif_grants_programs.shtml |archive-date=November 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Donations provide funding in the form of grants to financially assist Lions districts with large-scale humanitarian projects that are too expensive and costly for Lions to finance on their own.<ref name="ft lcif">{{cite web | url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e230ea0e-294c-11dc-a530-000b5df10621.html | work= [[Financial Times]] | title= Case Study: Lions Club International Foundation | date= July 5, 2007 | access-date= 2007-11-03 | archive-date= September 23, 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130923034415/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e230ea0e-294c-11dc-a530-000b5df10621.html | url-status= dead }}</ref>
The Foundation aids Lions in making a greater impact in their local communities, as well as around the world. Major initiatives of the foundation include the following:
*SightFirst programs
**Childhood Blindness Project
**Lions Eye Health Program (LEHP, pronounced "leap")
** [[River blindness]]/[[Trachoma]]
**SightFirst China Action
**Sight for Kids
*Other sight programs
**Core 4 Preschool
**Vision Screening
*Disability programs
**Lions World Services for the Blind 
** [[Diabetes]] Prevention/Treatment
** [[Habitat for Humanity]] Partnership
**Lions Affordable Hearing Aid Project
**Low Vision
** [[Special Olympics]] Opening Eyes
*Youth Programs
**LEO Clubs
**Lions Quest<ref name="lionsclubs2007"/>
**Lion Cubs<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coventrylions.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=38:lion-cubs&Itemid=58&layout=default|title=Lion Cubs|publisher=Coventry Lions|access-date=2013-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410063057/http://www.coventrylions.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=38:lion-cubs&Itemid=58&layout=default|archive-date=April 10, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Highest Club recognitions
**Model Clubs
**100|100 Clubs