District 12-O White Cane Fund Supports the following District 12-O Projects:
District 12-O Sight Restorations (formerly District 12-O Eye Bank and Sight Services) is the District organization that provides funding for needy individuals in our district to receive corrective eye surgery. This is made possible by your contributions to the District 12-O White Cane Fund and by pro-bono work of several doctors and their staffs. For 34 years District 12-O Lions have provided this service thanks to your generous donations to the White Cane Fund.
Leader Dogs for the Blind, located in Rochester, Michigan, provides guide dogs for visually impaired people at no charge. In addition, many local Lions Clubs will help provide transportation to Leader Dog when help is needed. Expert trainers work for two months with each potential guide dog, and then the blind recipient lives in a special dormitory for one month to learn how to work as a team with the dog.
World Services for the Blind, Inc, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a comprehensive rehabilitation center for blind adults. WSB provides counseling for emotional and psychological adjustment to blindness and training in independent living and mobility skills, vocational evaluation, and high quality, marketable job skills.
Learning Ally, (formerly The Tennessee unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic) is located in Oak Ridge. It supplies recording textbooks and other educational materials on request to individuals who are blind, dyslexic or have a print disability and cannot read standard print at no charge. In addition, educational outreach programs have extended into more than 150 schools and colleges in Tennessee.
Tennessee School for the Blind, located in Donnelson, educates approximately 200 students between the ages of 3 and 21 years. The majority of funds contributed by Lions are used to support the Lions Student Work Program, the Christmas Gift Program, and the Summer Enrichment Program for middle and high school students.
Tennessee School for the Deaf, located in Knoxville, educates approximately 200 deaf and hard-of-hearing children as well as teaches them how to cope in the hearing world. The funds contributed by Lions are used to provide personal necessities for lower income students and a Summer Camp Program for middle school, high school, and special needs students.
Tennessee Lions Charities – KidSight Outreach, was chartered in 1997 as a partnership with Vanderbilt Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Tennessee Lions Eye Center. The Lions Eye Center is for the specific purpose of providing quality eye care for young children. Our KidSight Outreach Program vision screening project, through a network of trained volunteers, implemented our vision screening to identify for treatment young children between the ages of 12 and 72 months for potential vision problems. Our vision screening program consists of two interdependent parts: 1.) An organizational structure, and 2.) field protocols governing the use of the screening instrument by trained volunteers. Each component works in harmony allowing the overall goal of the program to be achieved ... that is, the provision of eye screening referral and follow-up care for children between the ages of 12 months to 72 months
Vision problems affect one in 20 preschool and one in four school age children. Currently an estimated 60% of children under age six do not have eye exams. Tennessee Lions Charities partner with Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Science targeting young children between the ages of 12 and 72 months.
Trained volunteers conduct eye screenings state-wide for vision problems. Findings are interpreted by medical professionals, and children with potential problems are referred to vision care specialists. Volunteers have screened over 554,547 children and referred 29,196 for some degree of eye care. Once treated, these children will begin school with good vision and enhanced learning ability.
District 12-O Sight Restorations (formerly District 12-O Eye Bank and Sight Services) is the District organization that provides funding for needy individuals in our district to receive corrective eye surgery. This is made possible by your contributions to the District 12-O White Cane Fund and by pro-bono work of several doctors and their staffs. For 34 years District 12-O Lions have provided this service thanks to your generous donations to the White Cane Fund.
Leader Dogs for the Blind, located in Rochester, Michigan, provides guide dogs for visually impaired people at no charge. In addition, many local Lions Clubs will help provide transportation to Leader Dog when help is needed. Expert trainers work for two months with each potential guide dog, and then the blind recipient lives in a special dormitory for one month to learn how to work as a team with the dog.
World Services for the Blind, Inc, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a comprehensive rehabilitation center for blind adults. WSB provides counseling for emotional and psychological adjustment to blindness and training in independent living and mobility skills, vocational evaluation, and high quality, marketable job skills.
Learning Ally, (formerly The Tennessee unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic) is located in Oak Ridge. It supplies recording textbooks and other educational materials on request to individuals who are blind, dyslexic or have a print disability and cannot read standard print at no charge. In addition, educational outreach programs have extended into more than 150 schools and colleges in Tennessee.
Tennessee School for the Blind, located in Donnelson, educates approximately 200 students between the ages of 3 and 21 years. The majority of funds contributed by Lions are used to support the Lions Student Work Program, the Christmas Gift Program, and the Summer Enrichment Program for middle and high school students.
Tennessee School for the Deaf, located in Knoxville, educates approximately 200 deaf and hard-of-hearing children as well as teaches them how to cope in the hearing world. The funds contributed by Lions are used to provide personal necessities for lower income students and a Summer Camp Program for middle school, high school, and special needs students.
Tennessee Lions Charities – KidSight Outreach, was chartered in 1997 as a partnership with Vanderbilt Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Tennessee Lions Eye Center. The Lions Eye Center is for the specific purpose of providing quality eye care for young children. Our KidSight Outreach Program vision screening project, through a network of trained volunteers, implemented our vision screening to identify for treatment young children between the ages of 12 and 72 months for potential vision problems. Our vision screening program consists of two interdependent parts: 1.) An organizational structure, and 2.) field protocols governing the use of the screening instrument by trained volunteers. Each component works in harmony allowing the overall goal of the program to be achieved ... that is, the provision of eye screening referral and follow-up care for children between the ages of 12 months to 72 months
Vision problems affect one in 20 preschool and one in four school age children. Currently an estimated 60% of children under age six do not have eye exams. Tennessee Lions Charities partner with Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Science targeting young children between the ages of 12 and 72 months.
Trained volunteers conduct eye screenings state-wide for vision problems. Findings are interpreted by medical professionals, and children with potential problems are referred to vision care specialists. Volunteers have screened over 554,547 children and referred 29,196 for some degree of eye care. Once treated, these children will begin school with good vision and enhanced learning ability.
