The Augusta Lions Club

05/30/2026

05/28/2026

Our Favorite Tips to Achieve and Maintain Healthy Vision For Your Lifetime.💛💙✨
✔ Give your eyes a break from screens to avoid digital eye strain
✔ Exercise and eat a balanced diet
✔ Get annual eye screenings
✔ Protect your eyes from the harmful UV rays

05/23/2026

Secure your table and sponsorships NOW💥💛

WHY:
Evening in the End Zone, a "Night of Spectacles", supports Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation's mission to bring vision care to uninsured and underinsured Georgians.

Your commitment now provides assurance that our programs and services remain strong and ready to meet vision gaps in Georgia.

05/01/2026

Our mission is the result of a challenge Helen Keller issued to the Lions Clubs International
We work every day, one individual at a time, to execute her challenge.

FAR TOO MANY GEORGIA CHILDREN, ADULTS, AND SENIORS LACK ACCESS TO VISION SERVICES

Clear Vision for CHILDREN 💛💙 DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING
For children, clear vision is foundational, with roughly 80% of learning occurring through visual processing.
✔Academic Success: The ability to see clearly, track words, and focus on both near (books) and far (whiteboard) objects, enabling effective reading, writing, and, according to Dignity Health, computer work.
✔Visual Skills: Beyond 20/20 sight, this includes proper eye teaming (using both eyes together), focusing, and tracking.
✔Physical Coordination: Hand-eye coordination for sports and physical activities.

Clear Vision for ADULTS 💛💙 PRODUCTIVITY & LIFESTYLE
For adults, clear vision focuses on maintaining visual acuity to manage high-demand tasks and professional work.
✔Functionality: The ability to read, work on computers, and drive comfortably.
Comfort & Stamina: Freedom from chronic digital eye strain, eye fatigue, and headaches from focusing.
✔Preventive Health: Identifying early signs of eye diseases (like glaucoma) before they cause irreversible damage, ensuring long-term eye health according to Complete Family Eye Care.
✔Clear Vision for Seniors: Independence & Safety

Clear Vision for SENIORS💛💙 INDEPENDENCE & SAFETY
✔Independence: The ability to perform daily tasks, such as reading medication labels, driving, and recognizing faces, notes NVISION Eye Centers.
✔Safety: Reduced risk of falls and accidents by maintaining proper depth perception and peripheral vision.
✔Contrast Sensitivity: The ability to distinguish objects from their background, which often decreases with age (e.g., seeing in low light).

Together, we can transform the lives and generations one person at a time. LEARN MORE at https://lionslighthouse.org/ways-to-give/

04/29/2026

A simple way to make a lasting difference💙 Monthly giving is one of the most powerful ways to support our mission. Join the Circle of Care at https://bit.ly/CircleofCareVisionPartner

When you give monthly, you help remove uncertainty and ensure vision services are always available to those who need them.

It’s simple, flexible, and deeply impactful.
Monthly giving allows us to plan ahead, keep services available, and respond when help is needed most.
A small monthly gift creates consistent vision care—and lasting change.
• Consistent, clear vision creates opportunity and dignity
• Monthly support removes barriers to vision care
• Small gifts add up to life-changing impact

04/23/2026

A whopping 62 percent of our patients are females!
Children, Adults, Senior.

From eye screening to check vision to sight-saving surgery related to diabetes. ✨

Will you make a monthly donation in honor of a special female in your life?
Learn More at https://bit.ly/CircleofCareVisionPartner

By doing so, you will be giving little princesses, mothers, and grandmothers the gift of clear vision.
CLEAR VISION is critical to learning and literacy
CLEAR VISION is critical to employment
CLEAR VISION is critical for the hope of opportunity and quality of life

04/19/2026

Have unused eyeglasses at home? Give them a second life—and help someone else see clearly.✨

Donating your glasses is simple, and every pair makes a difference. Your contribution helps provide vision to individuals in need both locally and around the world.

HOW TO DONATE💙💛✔

Drop off your gently used eyeglasses at a designated collection location
Share this opportunity with friends and family
Consider hosting a small collection drive in your community

Your old glasses can become someone’s new vision. 💥Thank you for helping us make a difference!

CLICK HERE TO FIND A DONATION BOX NEAR YOU! https://bit.ly/DonateYourEyeGlasses

04/01/2026

We have always supported LeaderDog and now there’s no better time to help us change lives. Double your impact and help LeaderDog impact someone’s life, just like they did for Augusta Lions Joey Johnson and and Walker Jones!

Help Us Make a Difference with the $60,000 Matching Gift Challenge!

Now is the best possible time to support Leader Dog! Chief Financial CU has generously offered us a $60,000 matching gift challenge. They will match every donation dollar for dollar to DOUBLE the impact of every gift we receive between now and April 30!

Please support our mission of providing people with low vision with life-changing services that make them unstoppable! Simply click the following link to have your gift matched: https://give.leaderdog.org/for/d031/info/fb

Joey and Leader Dog Tucker exemplify the impact.

Joey says, “I finally realized that I wasn’t alone in my blindness journey and had found an organization (and clients) who were going to be with me and actually understood what I was experiencing.”

Image Description: A smiling man with short brown hair in a plaid button-down shirt has his arm around a golden Leader Dog wearing a tan harness. The text beside them reads "2X Matching Gift Challenge!" on a blue background.

03/18/2026

Don't forget to nominate an outstanding graduating high school student-athlete for our G.A.M.E.S Scholarship! Nominations close on April 1st!

Submit nominations at www.augustasportscouncil.org/games-scholarship-program

01/10/2026

Members of the Augusta Lions Club had the honor of visiting North Columbia Elementary School in Columbia County, Georgia with Lion Joey Johnson and Lion Walker Jones, along with their Leader Dogs Tucker (Joey) and Loki (Walker) in attendance.

They spent time with two Pre-K classes, teaching students about blindness, guide dogs, proper etiquette around service dogs, the white cane, and of course Leader Dogs for the Blind. They also introduced the children to the life-cycle of a guide dog, helping them understand how these incredible dogs grow, train, work, and eventually retire.

The students (and teachers!) were encouraged to ask questions, and they did an amazing job, respectful, curious, and absolutely adorable. It’s always inspiring to see young minds so engaged and eager to learn.

To wrap up the visit, they presented the classrooms with coloring pages and a reading book to continue the learning experience.

Opportunities like this remind us how important early education and community outreach are!