Lions
Clubs Purposes
- TO CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the
world.
- TO PROMOTE the principles of good government and good citizenship.
- TO FUND and otherwise serve the civic, cultural, social and moral
welfare of the community.
- TO ASSIST financially, culturally, socially, and morally the disabled,
disadvantaged and infirm of the community both directly and also indirectly.
- TO UNITE the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and
mutual understanding.
- TO PROVIDE a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public
interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be
debated by club members.
- TO ENCOURAGE service-minded persons to serve their community without
personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards
in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavours.
Lions
Code of Ethics
- TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious
application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
- TO SEEK success and demand fair remuneration or profit as my just due,
but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of
unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
- TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear
down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
- WHENEVER a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or
action towards others, to resolve such doubts against myself.
- TO HOLD friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true
friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true
friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
- ALWAYS bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state
and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed. To give
them freely of my time, labour and means.
- TO AID others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the
weak, and my substance to the needy.
- TO BE CAREFUL with my criticism and liberal with my my praise; to build
up and not destroy.
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