WHO WE ARE

Mission

To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.

About the Ocoee Lions Club

We Are Part of the International Association of Lions Clubs

The International Association of Lions Clubs was created in 1917 from a dream of Chicagoan Melvin Jones for “business leaders to give something back to their community." In 1925 the Lions Clubs became “knights of the blind in the crusade against blindness” and assist those people who are blind or visually impaired. The Lions Club has grown to over 46,000 clubs in 193 countries worldwide. Additionally, the Lions Club has been helping many people of all walks of life in meeting the demands of today’s world by providing food, shelter assistance, eye examinations and glasses, hearing examinations and hearing aides, public awareness and education on visual and hearing impairment, fixing up parks, and many other things.

Read a fact sheet about Lions Clubs, see the latest edition of LQ – Lions Quarterly, read the current edition of Lion Magazine, or view the Lions Clubs International YouTube Channel.

Also, see Lions Clubs in Florida, and read our District Newsletter.

But What is the Ocoee Lions Club?

The Ocoee Lions Club has been in existence for over seventy years and holds its meetings in the old train station on Taylor Street. The Ocoee Lions have been visible at many local functions, such as:

Turkey Shoots Fundraisers in the Fall
Ocoee Christmas Parade
Asylum Haunted House
Health Fairs
Annual Golf Tournament
Shred to Protect
We have over twenty members from various professions. We provide eye examinations and glasses, hearing examinations and hearing aides, sponsor the Christmas Parade, visit the sick at the Hospital on Christmas Day, etc.


We Serve

Some of the organizations the Ocoee Lions Club have and continue to support are:

West Orange Girls Club
The Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research
Lions District 35-O Hearing Bank
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Florida Lions Conklin Center for the Blind
Florida Lions Foundation for the Multi-Handicapped/Blind
Leader Dogs for the Blind
Southeastern Guide Dogs, Inc.
Boy Scout Troop 198
Carter Family Blind Bowlers
Lighthouse Central Florida
City of Ocoee National Night Out
S.T.A.R.S. of West Orange

General Information

There are many ways to join us and support our mission. Contact us to find out more about volunteer opportunities, fundraising events, and ways that you can get our message to your friends and family.
Our amazing team of regulars and part-time volunteers are committed to helping others. We take our convictions and turn them into action. Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information!
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