Lion Year 2026-2027
Ways we serve
Eight causes, 77 clubs, and one rule: serve the need in front of you. This is the work District 301-C is doing across Northern Philippines this year.
How it works
The club decides. The district backs it.
Lions International names eight global causes. What a cause looks like on the ground is decided by the club, because a club in Baguio and a club in Alaminos are not looking at the same need on the same morning. The district sets the calendar, runs the training, and moves resources when something big happens. The projects themselves belong to the clubs.
- 8 Global causes
- 3 Weeks of Service
- 77 Clubs serving
The eight causes
What Lions work on
These are the causes Lions serve worldwide. Under each one is what it means in District 301-C.
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Vision
Sight is where Lions started, after Helen Keller asked the 1925 convention to become knights of the blind. Clubs here run screenings and give out reading glasses, and the district certified its first Lion vision screeners in August.
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Diabetes
The Philippines has one of the fastest-growing diabetic populations in Southeast Asia, and most of it goes undiagnosed. Clubs run screening caravans with blood pressure and blood sugar checks, usually alongside a feeding or an outreach so people come.
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Hunger
Feeding programs in barangays and schools, run with barangay nutrition scholars and the school nutrition program so the same children are reached more than once rather than fed once and forgotten.
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Environment
Northern Luzon takes the typhoons first, so the environment here is not an abstraction. Clubs plant, clean up and protect watersheds, and the district closes the Lion Year with a district-wide tree planting.
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Childhood Cancer
Clubs support children in treatment and the families beside them, with outreach at hospitals including the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan.
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Disaster Relief
When a typhoon lands, clubs pack that night. After Typhoon Maymay the district ran relief operations across the affected provinces and served hot meals in San Fernando while the water was still down.
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Youth
Leo clubs, the district Peace Poster Competition, and the Leo leadership training that runs beside the Lions program. Young people here are not an audience for service, they run it.
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Humanitarian Efforts
The work that does not fit a category: school libraries, medical missions, blood drives, and whatever a barangay asks for that a club can actually deliver.
Weeks of Service
Three weeks the whole district serves together
Most service here is local and year round. Three times in the Lion Year every club works the same cause in the same fortnight, which is how a district of 77 clubs makes a dent big enough to see.
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8 to 18 October 2026
Vision
Screenings, reading glasses and referrals, district-wide.
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13 to 21 February 2027
Youth
Leo projects, schools and the young people clubs work with all year.
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29 May to 6 June 2027
Environment
Clean-ups and planting, closing with the district-wide tree planting.
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Where the big projects get their money
A club can run a feeding program on its own. It cannot rebuild after a typhoon on its own. LCIF is the Lions foundation that funds the work at that scale, and every grant that reaches this district started as someone's donation somewhere else. District 301-C thanked its LCIF donors for July and August this year.
Serve with a club near you
Every project on this page was run by a club, not by the district office. If you want to be part of one, or you want your barangay on a club's list, tell us where you are.