We Serve is the Lions motto. Here's what it means to the Albany & Troy Lions Club.
(Note: The Lions year runs from July 1 - June 30)
You can help by donating to the Albany & Troy Lions Charitable Fund

Between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, the Albany & Troy Lions Club:

  • Collected 11,470 pairs of used eyeglasses and 64 used hearing aids. 

  • Provided eyeglasses for 13 children and 20 adults.

  • Donated funds to send two deaf 8th-grade girls on a special school trip.

  • Purchased hearing aids for two needy women.

  • Participated in the "Shoes for the Shoeless" project that sent over 10,000 pairs of used shoes to Appalachia.

  • Sponsored a blood drive in August that collected enough blood to help 174 hospital patients. 7 Lions worked 37 man-hours at the drive and 2 Lions donated blood.

  • Sponsored a blood drive in December that collected enough blood to help 138 hospital patients. 8 Lions worked 25 man-hours at the drive and 2 Lions donated blood.

  • Purchased clothes and food for a family of four during the holidays.

  • Contributed to a Troy family to help fund their sick child's visits to the Children's Hospital in Boston, and to another Troy family that lost their home in a fire.

  • Donated to the Sight Society/Lions Eye Bank; Guiding Eyes for the Blind; Capital District Chapter of the American Council of the Blind; NABA; Fabulous Friends with Flying Fingers (a youth group that sings and performs in sign language).

Between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009, the Albany & Troy Lions Club:

  • Collected 9200 pairs of used eyeglasses and 135 used hearing aids. 

  • Provided eyeglasses for 34 children and 48 adults.

  • Totally or partially funded hearing aids for a 9-year-old boy and three senior citizens.

  • Purchased contact lenses for a 5-year-old with cataracts in both eyes and for a woman with special needs.

  • Purchased prescription safety glasses for an 8-year-old boy to protect his one good eye.

  • Provided funds to help offset the cost an elderly woman's follow-up care for glaucoma surgery. 

  • Provided funds to send a Troy High sophomore to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminar.

  • Donated a TTY machine to a hard-of-hearing woman. 

  • Helped a woman pay for medical expenses for her guide dog.

  • Sponsored a low-vision educational seminar. 

  • Presented the David B. Klingaman Citizenship Award to 14 area high-school seniors

  • Spear-headed a drive among several clubs to raise the funds to send a 15-year-old girl to Clara Barton Diabetes Camp for two weeks. 

  • Provided holiday gifts for a needy family of four.

  • Donated to Vacation Camp for the Blind; NABA's KidSight program; Troy's Ready-to-Learn program for kindergarteners; Lions Eye Bank; Ride for Diabetes; Lions' Hearing Conservation Society; Fidelco Guide Dogs; and Guiding Eyes for the Blind

  • Co-sponsored a blood drive that collected enough blood to save 87 lives.

  • Two A&T Lions worked on a Habitat for Humanity house in Albany as part of the National Day of service.

  • Four A&T Lions helped load shoes as part of the "Shoes for the Shoeless" campaign. 

Between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008, the Albany & Troy Lions Club:

  • Collected 14200 pairs of used eyeglasses and about 80 used hearing aids. 

  • Provided eyeglasses for 45 children and 18 adults.

  • Donated funds so that a blind girl could continue her piano lessons.

  • Purchased special glasses for 4-year-old twins.

  • Spear-headed a drive among several clubs to raise the funds to send  the family of an 11-year-old diabetic boy to Circle of Life Camp.

  • Contributed funds for an interpreter to accompany a deaf and blind 11th-grader on her school trip to Italy.

  • Purchased a flashing smoke detector for the family of a young deaf girl.

  • Provided holiday gifts for a needy family of four.

  • Presented small scholarships to  graduating seniors from 14 area high schools

  • Provided funds to send a Troy High sophomore to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminar.

  • Held a dinner to honor the school nurses in our area. Guest speaker Dr John Simon, Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology  at the Lions Eye Institute and Albany Medical Center, provided valuable information about eye problems that affect school children to the 70 nurses who attended.

  • Donated to Sight Society of NENY; Bike Ride for Diabetes; Lions Camp Badger; NABA