Lions Club International District 411 commemorative stamps
Technical details
Publication date: October 31, 1996
Designer: Mrs. Deborah Buchman from Israel
Print: Joh Enschede Netherlands
Size: 27.93 mm x 44.46 mm
Format: Vertical
Group: 50 to a sheet in two windows of 25
Process: offset polishing
Paper: no watermarks
Number of entries:
KSHS 6 Sgt
14 KSHS eye treatments
KSHS 20 wheelchair
KSHS 25 Ambulance
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Lions Club International District 411
History
The International Lions Club was founded by Mr. Melvin Jones in 1917 in Chicago. He organized a group of businessmen who were members of an insurance firm (where he was a secretary) in order to mobilize their talents to improve their communities. Eventually Mr. Malvin left his insurance agency and devoted his full time to the Lions in Chicago. He came up with the personal code: “You can’t get far if you don’t start doing something for someone else” which has become a guiding principle for moral people all over the world.
The Lions Club in Kenya was founded in 1958 by Paul Mankashaw. In 1959, Lyons District 411 was established combining Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in East Africa. From this period when the governments were pre-independent and onwards – when they became independent governments, they contributed to the growth of the Lions.
:International goals of the Lions Club
To create and foster a spirit of understanding among the people of the world.
Promote the principles of good governance and good citizenship.
To take an active part in the civil, cultural, social and moral balance of the community.
To provide a forum for open discussion of all public matters on the condition that club members do not argue about party and religious religion.
To serve the community and encourage people with a nature of service and action without personal financial reward.
To encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, the various professions, public works and private businesses.
6 KSHS LOGO – LIONS CLUB
The message conveyed by the Lions Club logo is that there is every reason to spread smiles across miles as the sun spreads its rays to vegetation and gives life but expects nothing in return. The tree symbolizes growth of the Lions for better service in the community. A mountain symbolizes the strength and solidarity of the organization. Impalas symbolize friendship.
14 KSHS EYE CAMPS
There is an international program dedicated to overcoming blindness worldwide. Lions clubs work individually or through their districts to prevent or treat the leading causes of blindness in their areas. They also established glaucoma screening clinics, eye banks, and rehabilitation centers.
20 KSHS WHEEL WHEEL
The club sponsors many programs for the physically and mentally handicapped, the elderly and the infirm. Dormitories were also built for them. The Lions Club is also engaged in providing wheelchairs and prosthetic legs to the physically disabled.
25 KSHS AMBULANCE
As part of providing services to the community, the Lions Club donated 411 ambulances to St. John’s Ambulances, Kisumu branch. This is one of the organizations that meet important humanitarian needs. Other activities of the Lions clubs that were carried out and did not receive visibility on the stamps are: awareness of drug use, awareness of diabetes, hearing and speech, educational services, renewal in the provision of environmental services, dissemination of information concerning food production methods, health services, leisure services, and international youth camps to name a few many of them.
The Postal Corporation and the Ministry of Communications in Kenya decided to recognize the good work done by the International Lions Club by issuing a set of four stamps.
