Meetings

Fundraisers: Golf Tournament, Western Night BBQ and Dinner Dance, 50s 60s Sock Hop Dinner Dance, White Cane Days, BBQ's for Art Festival and Corvette Car Show at the Lighthouse Park

We use funds raised for many projects. Some of the current ones are: Vision services financial support for those unable to fund treatment in the local area, The Conklin Center, Florida Lions Camp, SE Guide Dogs, Florida Foundation for the Blind, N. Florida Lions Eye Foundation, Leader Dogs. In our District 35-O, we support the Diabetes Project, Project Right to Sight, the Hearing Project, and the new Youth Scholarship Foundation. We also contribute to the mid-Florida Braille Association and the Camp Winona diabetes Scholarship program. We also financially support  Scouting, Ponce Inlet Children's Programs, the local Police Athletic League and plan to install a Braille Trail at a new Ponce Inlet Park.  We support Halifax Urban Ministries (HUM).

What is HUMHalifax Urban Ministries (HUM) is a non profit (501c (3)) organization whose prime mission is to prevent homelessness in eastern Volusia County by providing at risk families with food and emergency assistance to help keep them in their homes and off area streets. Last year, HUM provided over 16,000 food packages to needy/homeless families and served over 150,000 hot meals to homeless individuals. It also provides financial assistance in the form of rent, utility payments or emergency travel assistance.

In January 2010, HUM added the STAR Family Shelter to its base of operations. The STAR Family shelter is a 24 room, 94 bed family sensitive environment facility for homeless families and children. Through partnership with the Halifax Medical Center, Halifax Behavioral Services and Early learning Coalition’s GAP program, STAR families have access to basic medical and behavioral care as well as a high quality after school program for children.   

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