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OUR PROJECTS

Camp Lions
Our club helps sponsor a camper to Camp Lions each year. We believe in the wonderful program that brings so much fun and adventure to handicapped children.

Candy Day
Like other clubs in our area, we work on street corners raising money for Lions of Illinois Foundation and our local club through candy sales. It is an opportunity for us to interact with the community while raising money for worthwhile projects. Candy Day is usually held the second Friday in October.

DeKalb Cornfest
One of our major fundraising efforts is through the operation of a food booth at DeKalb Cornfest. We have sold different products over the years. It is a great way to support important work in the community through the DeKalb Noon Lions Club. It is also a wonderful way to celebrate one of the last beautiful weekends of summer. Click here to see photos from Cornfest 2004.

Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of new blindness in American adults. It can have devastating visual consequences and can lead to blindness. The Lions of Illinois Foundation provides the screening equipped with a photographer and a non-mydriatic camera (a type of eye camera). This special camera takes photographs of the back of a person's eye. These photographs are then forwarded to Illinois Retina Associates for review by one of its retinal specialists. These specialists have advanced training in the diagnosis and treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy and will look for abnomalities. Results are returned by mail. For more information call: 1-800-955-5466.

Handicapped Fishing Derby
We serve 500 handicapped youth and adults at the annual Handicapped Fishing Derby held at Shabbona State Park in July. The clubs of the Southwest Region, district 1-J work together to make the event a success. Activities include fishing, pontoon boat rides, games, canoeing, petting zoo, tram rides, clowns, and a picnic lunch. click here for map to park

Hurricane Relief Efforts
DeKalb Noon Lions has donated funds to help support local DeKalb Boy Scout Troop 33 in their relief efforts in Mississippi and Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and 2006, and again supporting their efforts in Galveston, Texas following Hurricane Ike in 2008 and 2009. For more information about Troop 33's hurricane relief efforts click here

"NIU Cares Day"
The annual "NIU Cares Day involves nearly 1000 NIU students working together to make the community a better place. We provide a work site for students, where they distribute information about diabetes awareness, and also collect used eyeglasses.

NIRIS (Northern Illinois Radio Information Service)
Broadcast by Northern Illinois University Public Radio, NIRIS presents news and information to visually impaired persons in northern Illinois through special radio receivers provided free of charge. The DeKalb Noon Lions Club makes annual contributions to support this vital service. We recently made a large contribution to purchase vital computer broadcast equipment.

Northern Illinois University Visual Disabilities Program
We are a supporter of Northern Illinois University’s visual disabilities program, which is on top of new technology that benefits people who are blind or visually impaired. We have provided grant money for the purchase of a Pac-Mate, a compact, portable computer designed for users with visual impairments that should work with most off-the-shelf software made for sighted people. Click here for photo and more details

Northern Illinois University Wellness Fair
We support the Northern Illinois University Wellness Fair by providing a booth to distribute information about Lions International and local club projects. We also provide information on Diabetes Awareness and collect used eyeglasses. Click here for photo and more details

Sight and Sound Sweepstakes
We sell Sight and Sound Sweepstakes, which benefits the Lions of Illinois Foundation and the many worthy projects they support. (click for Lions of Illinois)

Sight First II
SightFirst is a worldwide campaign fighting world blindness, but the growth and aging of the world's population pose new challenges. Changing patterns of eye disease, barely discernable when SightFirst began, have become serious threats to sight all across the world. SightFirst II is our new campaign.

The DeKalb Noon Lions club is working to do their part to assist in raising money for the SightFirst II Campaign. We have dedicated ourselves to raising more money for this most worthy cause.

Cataracts remain the world's leading cause of blindness. More children than ever before suffer from blindness or low vision. River blindness and trachoma can be controlled, but increased global awareness and funding are required. Diabetes and glaucoma destroy the vision of millions who may not know they are at risk.

The SightFirst approach is a three-part strategy to halt and roll-back this onslaught. The goals of Campaign SightFirst II reflect this plan.