2024 Global Service Week

The 2024 Global Service Week happened in 5 cities across Turkey and India with the attendance of Johnson&Johnson, the LCIF Chairperson and the Lions Club current and future international presidents. Besides saving a lot of lives, it marked the engravement od the DGRS logo on three schools, and the opening of the first fully decentralized (DGRS) Lions Club - after >100 years of history with >50 000 present Lions Clubs, the international board voted to allow an exception to the 75% rule (requiring most members to live in a single location). Also, the entire Tell-A-Thon 2024 will be featuring DeGenerous DAO with 3 hours of recordings as Proof-Of-Service, it'll be viewed by millions of people and raise millions of dollars.

After improving schools damaged by the earthquake in Turkey, this is the recap of the service done in India thanks to our holders:

1. Special Olympics day camp

2. Eye screening of thousands of kids

3. Diabetes health clinic for adults

4. Inaugurated two schools (refurbished)

5. Built a gymnasium floor for a 3rd school

6. Fed 5000 children in the slums

7. Supported 105 impoverished couples with weddings and gifts to help start their lives

8. Packaged and distributed food for life, supporting the feeding of 55 incapable senior citizens living in the slums

9. Built the first modern bathroom for a school for firls + a women's health component with sanitary napkin dispensers

10. Gave eyesight back to 76 patients by funding cataract surgeries

11. Donated 100 sewing machines to women in 100 villages so they can help improve their lives through economic development by selling clothing they create

12. Donated 14 water cooler machines to 14 new schools

13. Inaugurated a new patients room at the eye hospital that we refurbished

14. Supported a blood bank and donated a machine saving children lives.