Colleyville Lions Club
Diabetes
Lions around the world fund screening, education and camps for children living with diabetes. Diabetes is one of Lions International's eight global causes.
Global cause
Lions work on the disease and on the life around it.
Lions International states the goal plainly: we work to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and improve quality of life for those living with diabetes. Those are two different jobs. One is screening and education for people who do not yet know. The other is support for families already managing it every day.
- Awareness events that put diabetes in front of people who have never been screened.
- Health screening run alongside other Lions service days.
- Camp. Texas Lions Camp hosts Texas children living with type 1 diabetes at no cost to their families.
Where Colleyville comes in
The club has held a local Strides for Diabetes walk.
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Texas Lions Camp takes children with type 1 diabetes, free of charge.
The camp is a residential summer camp in Kerrville for children from across Texas with physical disabilities, Down syndrome, cancer, type 1 diabetes and other special medical conditions. Everything is provided free of charge to campers and their families. Colleyville Lions donate to the camp every year and encourage local families to apply.
Make an Impact with Us.
Texas Lions Camp hosts Texas children living with type 1 diabetes at no cost to their families, and Colleyville Lions donate to it every year.
Make an impact with us.
See the other seven global causes, and how much of each one happens here versus everywhere else.