Reston
Lions ClubOur Activities
Community Service
- Eyeglass recycling. We collect and refurbish old, discarded eyeglasses and hearing aids through the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers in Roanoke and Falls Church and the Hearing Aid Bank in Arlington. Finished products are distributed overseas to centers of great poverty in developing countries as well as locally.
- Bland Music Concert. Annual music competitions for middle and high school students.
- Adopt-a-Highway
- Vision, hearing, diabetes, and glaucoma testing for members of the community using the Lions Club Mobile Health Screening Van.
- Tuition scholarships to students with sight or hearing disabilities.
- Support of local youth organizations including Reston Youth Baseball, South Lakes High School activities, Children's Hospital and Boy Scout Troop 1802.
Charities
- Health and welfare assistance to neighbors in need.
- Leader Dogs for the Blind
- Old Dominion Eye Foundation and Eye Bank
- Prevent Blindness--Virginia
- Virginia Lions Hearing Foundation & Research Center, Inc.
- Northern Virginia Lions Youth Camp, Inc.
- Lions of Virginia Foundation
- Virginia Lions Eye Institute
- Diabetes Awareness Program
- Examinations for the fitting of eyeglasses and hearing aids for the needy.