Service Ideas for Lions of 5M5

 

VISION

Here are ideas in one of the five key areas of service on ways to serve your community:

 

 

  • Collect eyeglasses and donate to MN Lions Vision Foundation Trustee.

 

  •   Donate large print books to your local library. Put donation labels (Donated by the ____ Lions Club with the month and year) in large-print books that are donated to local libraries. (Check with libraries first to see what books they want to acquire.) 

 

  • Help make tactile baby blankets for babies who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities or deaf blindness.

          https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/blog/tactile-baby-blankets.

          Donate locally, if needed, or to Perkins International.    https://www.perkins.org/

 

  •  Construct a Sorry game for visually-impaired seniors at a nursing home.

           https://www.perkinselearning.org/activity/adapted-sorry-board-game

 

 

  • Low vision kits - create kits for people who have been recently diagnosed as low vision or who are blind:  

             https://carroll.org/product/mixed-bump-dots/

             https://carroll.org/product/marinoff-low-vision-playing-cards/

             https://carroll.org/product/bold-writer-low-vision-pens/

             https://carroll.org/product/plastic-check-writing-guide/

             https://carroll.org/product/2x-around-the-neck-magnifier-rectangular-5-5-x-4/

 

 These kits can be given to Lions members to begin with and then to people who are identified in the community.