Glenside Lions News

Glenside Lions are holding a Lions Awareness Day event at our Lions Bookmart on Saturday 6 March from 10am to 3pm. Everyone is invited to join us to celebrate our connection with our community. Our members will be there to meet and speak to members of our community. At this event we will provide information on Glenside Lions and the service we provide to our community. We will also have information on Lions Australia and Lions International and the work we do at national and international levels. There will be free sausage sizzle and iced bottled water. We hope you can join us.

Date     Saturday 6 March

Time     10am to 3pm

Venue   In front of the Bookmart at 4 Kennaway Street, Tusmore

The previous Burnside Council Mobile Library sponsored by Glenside Lions has been replaced by a smaller vehicle and the new service is now called the Home Library Service. The lending system has changed. Residents have to request the books they wish to read and this new vehicle will deliver the books to them. This essential service delivers books to our senior residents who are unable to physically access the library. The service is also available to handicapped residents. Glenside Lions support this new service that allows our older residents and handicapped residents access to books from the Burnside public library.

January is Lions Hunger Awareness Month. Hunger is a problem without borders. Lions Clubs make huge strides in providing meals and nutrition for those in need—in hopes that one day no child will ever have to live without knowing when their next meal will come.Our Strategic ObjectiveEnsure all community members have access to nutritious food. At Glenside Club we donate regularly to Foodbank SA to provide nutritious food to people in need in our community.

Glenside Lions have donated $1000 to the Lions Australia Spinal Cord Fellowship. This is another project Glenside Lions regularly support.Around 15,000 Australians live with a spinal cord injury. The cost to patients and their families can be immense and the cost to the Australian health care system is approximately $2 billion per annum.The spinal cord is an extension of the brain and runs from the neck to the lower back. The spinal cord consists of millions of nerve fibres that transmit information to and from the limbs, trunk and organs of the body. A spinal cord injury happens if pressure is applied to the spinal cord, and/or the blood and oxygen supply to the cord is disrupted.The purpose of the Fellowship is to support StepAhead Australia (previously known as the Spinal Cord Society of Australia) in funding Australian Scientists or Clinicians to study the latest techniques of Spinal Cord injury in Australia to the intent that the knowledge and experience so gained shall be made available to the Australian public. #WeServe

Glenside Lions have donated $1000 to the Lions Prostate Cancer Research and Treatment & Support Project. Our Club supports this Project regularly because this research is vital for the health of many Australian men. This Project supports the development of medical services for research and treatment of Prostate Cancer, funded by the generous donations of Australian Lions Clubs.The main beneficiary of the project is the Mater Prostate Cancer Research laboratory (MMRI) that is working to develop immunotherapy treatment of patients with prostate cancer.Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is the second biggest cause of cancer deaths in Australia claiming more than 3000 lives a year. Nine Australian men die each day from this cancer. 61,000 are fighting the cancer and 20,000 will be diagnosed each year. #WeServe

Glenside Lions have donated $2000 to Australian Lions Hearing Dogs. Our Club donates regularly to this very important Australian Lions project that benefits many Australians. One in six Australians suffer from some form of hearing loss and this number continues to rise. Of these people, approximately 400,000 are dealing daily with the isolating challenges of severe or profound deafness.Training a Hearing Assistance Dog takes approximately 6 months and is split into two parts; public access and sound training.An Australian Lions Hearing Dog has the same public access rights as a guide dog for the blind. It is essential therefore that they are comfortable and relaxed in a range of outdoor settings. Consequently, trainee Hearing Assistance Dogs are put through an intensive socialisation program where they are trained to accompany their future deaf or hard of hearing owners into shops, restaurants, workplaces and on public transport. #WeServe