Athens Classic City Lions 7432 of Lions International

08/18/2026

Our Lions Club is a big supporter of the Georgia Lions' Camp, Inc.. We hope you will check them out!

🦁 Calling All Lions Clubs — Help Us Make a Difference! 💙

Together, we can create life-changing experiences for individuals living with visual impairments while strengthening the spirit of service in our communities. 🌟

We invite Lions Clubs to get involved and help support the mission of Georgia Lions Camp by:
✅ Sponsoring campers
✅ Volunteering your time
✅ Participating in events & service projects

Your support helps provide inclusive programs, unforgettable experiences, and opportunities that empower campers to build confidence, friendships, and independence.

Let’s continue the Lions tradition of service and make an even greater impact - together. 💛

08/18/2026

ATHENS COMMUNITY, please read on for an important message.

The Athens Classic City Lions Club needs you!

The traditional "global cause" of Lions Clubs International was vision (serving the visually impaired) after Honorary Lion HELEN KELLER urged Lions to be "KNIGHTS OF THE BLIND in [her] crusade against darkness."

Lions International has, in the past few years, added seven more global causes. However, most Lions Clubs still focus primarily on vision. At our club meeting last night, we discussed expanding our number of eyeglasses collection boxes in Athens-Clarke County.

Our Classic City Lions also help provide eye exams, glasses, and eye surgery referrals for people in need and with little or no insurance coverage. We are also currently working on updating our equipment for doing vision screenings at health fairs, festivals, and farmers markets.

THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE ARE SO IMPORTANT! Won't you please become a "knight of the blind" by joining us, serving with us, or just helping us in whatever way you can!

Please contact us via Facebook Messenger if you too want to serve and/or visit our website at athensclassiccitylions.org.

05/16/2026

On Tuesday, April 28, the Athens Classic City Lions partnered with members of the UGA Pre-Optometry Club to sort, count, and box used eyeglasses and sunglasses. The result of our labor was fifteen boxes containing 2,239 pairs of glasses that will be sent to the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation in Chamblee. There, they will be further sorted, cleaned, and prepared for overseas mission trips in order to help people who desperately need vision care. These people sometimes are unable to work because of their poor vision. So receiving these glasses may help them to feed their families.
We had an enjoyable afternoon getting to know each other and we hope to continue partnering on this and other service projects.
Please remember to donate your used eyeglasses by dropping them into a Lions Club collection box.

05/14/2026

On Tuesday, April 28, the Athens Classic City Lions Club partnered with members of the UGA Pre-Optometry Club to count, sort, and box prescription eyeglasses, prescription sunglasses, and non-prescription sunglasses.

Two Lions and five Pre-Optometry students enjoyed working together for nearly two and a half hours and filled 15 boxes with a total of 2,239 pairs of glasses!

These glasses will be donated to the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation whose volunteers will clean and further sort them by prescription. The glasses are then sent overseas with medical missions to be distributed to people in desperate need of vision correction.

These glasses provide better vision and, in so many cases, help improve the economic well being of families. Many people with poor vision can no longer do the kind of work they are used to, or find alternative work, leading often to having no income at all.

Thank you to everyone who donates their old eyeglasses by dropping them into a Lions Club donation box!

Thank you to all Lions Clubs and Lions who place the boxes, in local businesses, optometrist and ophthalmologist offices, and collect, sort, and donate the eyeglasses!

This is not just a humanitarian service but it's also an environmental service.

Please donate your old eyeglasses!

04/18/2026

Busy morning at our Spring Pancake Breakfast! We're still serving - until 11 am. Come out and eat with us!

04/10/2026

04/05/2026

SO TRUE!
Please think about becoming a Lion!

04/05/2026

Athens Area Friends,
Please come out and have breakfast with the Classic City Lions on Saturday, April 18th before heading to the G-Day festivities!
Message or call us for tickets! Please share with your friends!

04/02/2026

Our Club recently hosted Lion Jonathan Yaeger, Lions District 18-I Diabetes Chair.
Lion Jon's presentation -- "Diabetes: The Largest Pandemic in Human History?" -- was extremely informative and helpful to our Club. We learned that more than 80% of the 98 million people with
High blood sugar don’t know it; and that 20% of people with Type 2 Diabetes are undiagnosed.
Lion Jon also shared important materials to help our club "pre-screen" community members and raise awareness of the disease. The pre-screening form is in the photos below. Please assess your risk. Also, enjoy the helpful information about Lions.