How We Serve

At the Katy Lions Club, we’re not only about blindly assigning folks to generically serve. We strive to match our serving Lions with activities and efforts that compliment their skills, desires, and capacities available to them.

You’re encouraged to contribute your available time to service projects, as well as being available to attend other activities and events. You can always talk with members. The biggest bonus: if you’re running low on free time but still want to give back, you can become a financial supporter of our fifty year old club.

Take a look at just some of the amazing ways the Katy Lions Club serves our community.

What's Coming Up

The Vagina Monologues is a 1996 Off-Broadway play that explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences and other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences. This showing is raising money to benefit Transparent Closet & Women's Charities. Buy your tickets to the March 25th showing.

April 1st Music Festival featuring Eric Paslay and benefitting the Texas Lions Camp. Also featuring Backroads, Jay White and Blues Comander, Jean-Pierre and Zydeco Angels, Tylor Bigley, and Holly Tucker. This event is organized by our friends at the Temple Breakfast Lions Club. Sign up!

On April 6th, hear from Susan Chiboroski with the Katy ISD Fine Arts, about fostering creativity in young people and then Jay Donnella with Christ Clinic Katy will share how their organization is helping Katy's underserved, and how we're helping them do it.

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Come out to Katy's First Baptist 600 Pin Oak on April 15th to for this free recycling event from 9am to 12noon. Bring used glasses and check out the list of accepted trash for recycling

Our very own Rev. David is running for the District 2-S2 Humanitarian Relief Fund Director. Cheer him on and join Lions from across the seven counties for this year's 2-S2 District Convention on April 21-22, 2023, at Houston Hilton North! Registration is $125 for the entire event.

On May 4th, Monica Guerrero from Prevent Blindness Texas will talk about vision programs and initiatives available in the State of Texas; then Coach Cam Campbell will join us to share his learned insights into diversity, economic empowerment, and how whether you're an NFL team, a high school coach, a business owner, or a student, you can effect positive change.

June 1st, hear from Adrienne, President of the Katy Heritage Society, will provide a presentation on the history of Katy. Then Amanda, Board Moderator of FCC Katy, will provide an outline of where we need to go to make Katy more inclusive and open. 

Eye Glass Drop Off Sites

Eye Vision Screening & Glasses Drop-Off Collections

We provide eye care vision, and through our dozens of used glasses pickups, we have collected tens of thousands of glasses over the last few years. Those glasses, along with the glasses from over fifty other clubs in the area go to a processing center which stamps out new prescriptions, at low- to- no cost to lower income families, many of them with young children, who need them. We also provide eye exams through our partnership with the nurses of Katy Independent School District, again, at little cost to the families.

The Katy Lions Club has various locations where the community can drop off used glasses. Those wanting to serve in this project can help by checking and emptying the boxes, which are then taken to the distribution center monthly. The shown coloring is based on our assigned pick-up zones, and doesn't affect where you drop off.

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Charities, Initiatives, & Programs

Blind Living Skills
World Services for the Blind serve people who are blind and visuall impaired learn independent living and job training skills. The goal of the rehabilitation center is to prepare blind and visually impaired people to function independently in our "sighted" society.

Blind Services
The Lighthouse of Houston offers a wide variety of educational programs, community services, outpatient rehabilitation, and behavioral health services for the blind and visually impaired. Infant, youth, and children’s programs provide opportunities for children and their families to learn new skills.

Community Garden
The Neighborhood Garden Project is a community garden giving families the opportunity to grow food by helping remove common suburban obstacles - primarily the lack of adequate space and sufficient sunlight. The project caters to all ages and abilities, providing a safe space to learn and experience.

Corneal Transplants
Lions Eye Bank of Texas works inside the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor University to the provide clinical resources of corneal specialists and others to assist in training and management of the eye bank and the corneal transplants. These resources provide solutions for those in need of sight.

Disaster  Relief
Texas Lions Foundation concentrates its efforts in two areas: humanitarian services and disaster relief. (Grant guidelines) The Foundation strives to support projects that, while falling into one of these two categories, also have long-term and far reaching effects, and promote the objectives of the TLF.

Glasses Assistance
Working with Katy ISD and Hope Impacts, we meet the critical need of providing glasses to our low-income neighbors in Katy. We are a local VSP Eyes of Hope Certificate Provider, offering those who meet the eligibility criterea eye exams and glasses at little to no cost to them or their families.

Health Fair
We support the health of our community through collaboration with many different local organizations. Since 2021, we have worked private businesses, non profits, and local government (such as the City of Katy and Harris County Health Department) to bring health fairs and awareness to our city.

Humanitarian Relief
The humanitarian efforts of Lions have been notable and celebrated for more than 100 years. Working together, our district identifies critical humanitarian needs and provides aid. The District 2-S2 Humanitarian Relief Fund supports the efforts of over 50 clubs across Harris and the surrounding counties.

Humanitarian Support
The Lions Clubs International Foundation mission is to support the efforts of Lions clubs and partners in serving communities locally and globally, giving hope and impacting lives through humanitarian service projects and grants.

Peace Poster Contest
Working with the Katy ISD Fine Arts Department, we have been sponsoring entries to the largest humanitarian art competition in the world for children aged 11 to 13. Creating peace posters gives children the chance to express their visions of peace and inspire the world through art and creativity.

Recycling Days
Working with the City of Katy and other local organizations, we partner to host a recycling day and trash diversion program every Spring and Autumn. Bring used glasses and check out the list of accepted trash for recycling

Reforestry
Tree-Nation gathers and coordinates reforestation efforts worldwide in a unique platform, enabling every citizen, company and planter to take action. We're working to promote world-wide reforestation. Check it out at forest.katylions.org

ACW Scholarship
Working with the Katy Heritage Society, we provide a second $1000 Adult Continuing in the Workforce Scholarship. Lifelong learning should be accessible to all, and this unique scholarship promotes the City of Katy and our unique history while providing a platform for adults to gain professional education.

GSA Scholarship
Working with the Giving Tree @ FCC Katy, we help fund an annual Gay-Straight Alliance Scholarship to a graduating senior in Katy ISD. We serve never has exceptions, so supporting our GSA advocates helps to ensure advancement of our community. 

OFY Scholarship
The annual Texas Lions' Opportunity for Youth Scholarships provide students with the initiative to research and gain knowledge on various social ramifications of both diabetes and substance abuse. The contests start at the club level, and then are judged at the district before heading to State. 

Seeing Eye Dogs
Leader Dog trains seeing eye dogs to provide the freedom of movement taken for granted by the majority of the population. Every person deserves equal opportunity for independent travel. They are the answer for thousands of people in critical need of sight and human connectivity throughout North America.

Student Volunteers
We provide leadership training, education, and service opportunities for 12 to 17 year old students seeking volunteer hours through the Leo Club of Katy. The activities and service projects are started and organized by the students under the guide of our Leo Advisors.

Summer Camp
Texas Lions Camp was founded on the principle that every child is deserving of a happy childhood. By inviting children to participate in activities they may have otherwise believed out of their reach, we hope to help them improve their self-esteem and step into their life's calling.

Toy Drive
Our annual toy drive has donated over 15,000 toys since 2020! We collect toys every November and December and take them over to local hospitals and non profit organizations we have partnered with, where they are distributed to young cancer patients and their families.

Transparent Closet
The Transparent Closet is a free clothing boutique designed for trans and exploring teens, youth, and young adults to have a safe space for clothing needs and beyond. The Closet is a welcoming space with clothes, undergarments, binders, hair and style accessories, make-up, and more.

Vision Screening
After being State Certified and trained to use both charts and automatic vision screening devices, our members screen children as young as 6 months, the homeless population, and anyone else who needs to be screened. If this is something you'd like to have at your school, program, or workplace, reach out.

White Canes & More
Sight Conservation Services Preventing blindness wherever possible and aiding those in need of visual assistance In keeping with one of the oldest missions of the Lions around the world, our commitment is to prevent blindness wherever possible and to aid those in need of seeing assistance.