Sights for Hope Client-Led Lions Clubs to Give Back During the Holiday Season

By Sights for Hope Team |
Four people, diverse in age, smile. Some hold white canes and two wear dark glasses. They stand behind a box labeled "Toys for Tots" containing unwrapped toys, conveying warmth and generosity.

Sights for Hope’s two client-led Lions Clubs will spend part of their holiday seasons giving back to their communities.

The Monroe Sights for Hope Lions Club is compiling personal care items like toothbrushes, toothpaste, and shampoo for Monroe County Meals on Wheels; clean plastic bags of any kind to be recycled as a bench; and empty medicine bottles for Matthew 25 Ministries. Items can be taken to either Sights for Hope services center.

Meanwhile, the Lehigh Valley Sights for Hope Lions club is collecting contributions for the annual Marine Corps Toys for Tots drive in collaboration with the Allentown Fire Department. Toys can be dropped off at Sights for Hope’s Lehigh Valley Services Center during business hours through Friday, December 12.

The clubs were activated in 2022 as branches of existing clubs. Since then, the Lehigh Valley club has become its own independent club, and the Monroe Club has assumed the century-old charter of the Stroudsburg Lions Club. Sights for Hope sponsors both clubs. Most officers and members of both clubs are Sights for Hope clients. The Lehigh Valley Club operates in Pennsylvania Lions District 14-K and the Monroe Club operates in Pennsylvania Lions District 14-U.

Lions International is the world’s largest service organization, with 1.4 million members in 200 countries, and its members are known throughout the world for their work to improve the lives of people with visual impairments. Sights for Hope traces its inception to efforts by Lions clubs in 1928. Lions Clubs in the Lehigh Valley and Monroe County provide financial support to Sights for Hope annually.

Sights for Hope empowers people to overcome the challenges of vision loss and promotes healthy eyesight throughout Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and Monroe County. Sights for Hope educates people with limited or no vision about adaptive skills, improves their access to essential services, boosts their confidence and emotional well-being, and helps them obtain assistive devices. Sights for Hope also connects pre-kindergarten children to eye care and teaches people how to keep their eyes strong and safe. Founded in 1928, Sights for Hope is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind (PAB) and the national VisionServe Alliance.

Image: Four people, diverse in age, smile. Some hold white canes and two wear dark glasses. They stand behind a box labeled “Toys for Tots” containing unwrapped toys, conveying warmth and generosity.