PANAMA LIONS TEAM 2023 – VISION RENEWAL IN THE ISTHMUS

Photo-op sign on Flamenco Island off the Pacific entry for the Panama Canal. First Lions stop in Panama.

Lions in Sight is a subgroup formed by Lions and optometrists in the late 1990’s.  Originally (and still well represented), most of the volunteers and doctors for the group came from the San Francisco area.  The group expanded activities in the 21st century with a vision clinic a year to Mexico’s 8 Lion regions.  One to two other trips went afield to more distant clinics – Palestine, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Lithuania, Armenia, Albania, etc.  Lion volunteers and doctors soon came from all over the US helping spread the motto of Lionism “We Serve”.

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LIONS VISION CLINIC IN ALBANIA

ashraf 3 last clinic
Last morning of Lions Vision clinics at Ashraf 3, Albania.

Lionism is truly a worldwide phenomenon.  My wife and I joined a 36-member Lions In Sight team – composed of 13 doctors and 23 others from all over the US and Canada – that worked at various vision clinics Albania seeing over 7,000 patients during the first week of November 2018.

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