to people, and schools, in the community who are in need. The Arizona Lions Vision Center was organized in 1960 and formally opened in 1962. Camelback Mountain Lions, Dr. Troy Miller and Past International Director Jim Sexton and former Camelback Lion member, was instrumental in the first stages of the Arizona Lions Vision Center. The first centrally located office was opened in November 1963 at t
he Greater Arizona Saving and Loan Building in down town Phoenix. In 1966, the Arizona Lions Vision Center was moved to the Melvin Jones Center at 3100 E Roosevelt. As the center grew and more space was needed the Arizona Lions Vision Center was moved in 1986 to the Lions Foundation of Arizona at 1016 N. 32nd Street where the center is still providing services. Initially the Arizona Lions Vision Center was open 9 am until 5 pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays by appointment only.
“THE PRICE OF IMPROVED VISION SHOULDN’T BE OUT OF SIGHT…..” That was the belief of the Camelback Lions when it helped found the Arizona Lions Vision Center. The central office of the Arizona Lions Vision Centers’ is open Tuesday – Thursday 8:30 am to 4 pm and Fridays 8:30 am to noon. In addition to helping the under served students, the Arizona Lions Vision Center also aids the elderly and other members of the community who have no other means of acquiring properly prescribed and fitted eyewear. The Arizona Lions Vision Center is proud to work with many local organization such as John C. Lincoln Hospital, Project PEP, HIVHCV Services, Native American Work Forces, Phoenix Children’s Hospital- Home Base Program and Health Care for the Homeless to name a few of the more than 35 other organizations. The Arizona Lions Vision Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, which works with most of the Lions Clubs helping more than 400 patients per month, providing examination and dispensing quality eye wear. Also, available is a mobile eye unit. This unit is used at health fairs, and for eye screening, including glaucoma and prescriptions at a minimal cost, where there is no ophthalmologist within 20 miles. The doctors donate their services, as they have done for 25 years.
