1.Lions Day With the United Nations
Lions will celebrate their 67-year humanitarian partnership with the United Nations at Lions Day With the United Nations at U.N. headquarters in New York on March 16, 2012. Past Lions Days with the United Nations have focused on shared goals and opportunities for collaboration with U.N. agencies such as UNICEF and UNESCO. As in past years, the grand prize winner of this year's Lions International Peace Poster Contest will be announced.The event is open to any Lion or Leo who wishes to attend but registration is required. Space is limited so please make your reservation early by contacting the Program Development department. 2. SCHOOL TO HOME, HOME TO PEOPLE --ROLLING TROPHIES One of the approved projects for winning contest points is to institute Rolling Trpohies to the best performer as adjudged by the jury during Sub District, District & State level school youth festivals(Kalolsavam). This is part of our venture to popularize lionism among public through school children under the activity ‘School To Home, Home To People”. This will be an encouragement to school children as well as schools. Now is the apt time for the clubs to watch the dates of youth festivals in their sub-district or District, or at least in the local schools and to sponsor one or two trophies in the club’s name and thus popularize lionism among people through school children. Individual members may also sponsor a trophy in the name of their dear loved ones through their lion clubs.
3. TALENT HUNT AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN This is yet another District Level Programme to popularize lionism among people through school children under the activity ‘ School To Home, Home To people’. This is proposed to be implemented through an essay writing competition in Malayalam in schools and winners will be suitably honoured with three cash prizes ( First prize being Rs 15001/- ) The competition will be held at five centres of the District, viz; Trivandrum, Varkala, Punalur, Kottarakara, Kayamkulam. Competition centres are decentralized to facilitate maximum participation from all parts of the District and to avoid long travel to the centre. All the Region Chairpersons and Zone Chairpersons are requested to motivate the clubs under their jurisdiction to sponsor two best students from a school from their area for the competition. The Club President or the President failing, the Region Chairperson or Zone Chairperson or any lion who sponsors the prize winning students will be specially honoured during the Golden Jubilee Celebrations to be held at January 26th 2012. There is no financial commitment for the clubs except spending a little time to meet the head of the school and get the names and send it to Lion P.Shivakumar Region Chairperson
(Tel 0471-2331690, 9847065690) who will coordinate the programme in all the centres with the support of the Co-Region Chairpersons and Zone Chairpersons, and Club officials of the respective areas. Other details regarding the competitions will be sent separately to the Region Chairpersons, Zone Chairpersons and Club Presidents. Please remember that an early bird catches the prey and so, start finding out the best students to be sponsored and get yourself also honoured. 4. Our District Number 324 E1 It was informed during the Joint Multiple Council Meeting at Hyderabad that there will be re-numbering of Multiple Districts in the southern multiples very soon for administrative reasons and our Multiple District will be numbered as 318 and the five Districts in the Multiple will get the letters A,B,C,D,E followed by the numerical. 5. BANNER PATCHES FOR MEMBERSHIP GROWTH
Immediate Past International Lion Sid L. Scruggs III has forwarded to the District Governor Lion Dr.C.Ramakrishnan Nair banner patches to be presented to the Presidents of the clubs which have met the membership recruiting goals for the Lions year 2010- 11 during the Governorship of our Multiple Council Chairperson Lion G.Hariharan. This is in appreciation of the team work demonstrated by the club members to achieve an important goal. District Governor will be presenting these patches to the following Clubs during his visit there. Those clubs where his visit is already over may get them personally from the District Governor . Th clus are Anchal Town, Balaramapuram, Edava, Haripad Temple Town, Kallambalam, Killam Melvin Jones School, Kottarakara, Kottiyam, Kunnikode, Manambur, Mayanadu, Navaikulam, Pattazhy, Perumkuzhy,Pooyapally, Punalur Greater, Puthupally, Quilon Central, Quilon East, Thamarakulam, TrivandrumAirport City, Trivandrum City West, Trivandrum Cotton Hill, Trivandrum Diamonds, Trivandrum Gems, Trivandrum Ginkgo, Trivandrum Host, Trivandrum Impact, Trivandrum Kowdiar, Trivandrum Metropolis, Trivandrum Mid Town, Trivandrum Rajadhani, Trivandrum Royal, Vakkom Kadakkavoor, Vallikunnam and Varkala. Congratualtions to the sponsors of new members! May you continue your service to others. Let us work hard to bring in more members to our organization and get banner patches for this year and all coming years. 6. DISTRICT GOVERNOR, VICE DISTRICT GOVERNORS, REGION CHAIRPERSONS, ZONE CHAIRPERSONS & CLUB PRESIDENTS EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2010-11 Lion G.Hariharan , Lion Dr.C.Ramakrishnan Nair and Lion P.Surendran have been awarded District Governor, First Vice District Governor and Second Vice District Governor Excellence Awards respectively for the year 2010-2011 by the International President 2010-11 Sid. L Scruggs III in appreciation of their accomplishments in their respective offices.
Region Chairpersons Lions K.S.Jayan(Host) S. Narayana PIllai(Attingal), P.Chandra Mohan(Haripad), Alfred Samuel(Quilon) have been awarded Region Chairperson Excellence Awards. Lions R.Sujithkumar, S.Nousharudeen, K.Mohanan Pillai, S.Williams, MA Vahab, Francis Albert, K.Gopakumara Menon,
K.L. Pradeep, D.Salgunan, V.M.Pradeep have been awarded Zone ChairPerson excellence Awards 2010-11. Club Presidents excellence Awards have been conferred on Lions A.Salim(Kayamkulam) , G.Sanalkumar (Manambur), S.Raju (Mayyanad), M.J.Yacoob (Punalur Greater), Lion Er.N.G.Gopalkrishnan (Trivandrum Ginkgo).
The editorial team and the whole lion fraternity join to congratulate all the award winners for their accomplishments in the respective offices during 2010-11. Let these awards and award winners be a motivation to the Region and Zone Chairpersons and Club Presidents to work harder and greater dedication. Who knew one among you will not be an award winner for the year 2011-12?
District Governor Lion Dr C.Ramakrishnan Nair has informed that the awards will be presented to these dedicated ions at an occasion which will give due recognition to them and their many efforts made on behalf of the association during their term of office. 7.VALLIKUNNAM FAMILY MEET -- WITH NAGAR TO NAGAR JAY HIND TV
Lions Club of Vallikunnan organized a family meet in association with Family Talk Show – Jai Hind TV on 20th October 2011 – a dynamic programme that attracted the attention of TV Viewers globally. The programme was telecast nine times in November 2011 . An entertainment event in which all lions and lionesses of the club participated was inaugurated by Lion AK Abbas MJF, Second Vice District Governor in the presence of Dr.P.R.G.Pillai MJF, Advisor to DG Team and Lion Sureshkumar Potty MJF. Dr Manoj Varghese, anchor, Asianet was the Chief Guest. ‘ Uses and Abuses of Mobile Phones and Internet by Children’ ‘ Kalikkalam’ – a game show, “’ Aadaam Paadaam’ – an entertainment programme with songs and dances were the main contents of the event. Lion Shaji, Coordinator, Lion Prasannan who prepared the participants for the show deserve special congratulations. Special thanks are due to Mr Riyas, Director, Nagar To Nagar Jay Hind TV, anchor Mr Vijay Ashok and the crew members of Jay Hind TV who joined hands with Lions Club of Vallikunnam for bringing out a beautiful programme for the global viewership. CONGRATULATIONS! SHIKHA IS MULTIPLE FIRST IN PEACE POSTER CONTEST Kum Shikha Sivaraman , Quarter No 18, Medical College Staff Quarters, Medical College P. 0, Trivandrum , sponsored by Lions Club Trivandrum Impact has been adjudged as the Multiple District First in the peace poster contest held for the children of the age group between 11-13. Poster painted by her was a unique representation of her artistic talents and indicative of a promise of the future in the painting field. Hearty Congratulations to Shikha and the District Governor and the District Administration wish her all the best HIGHER LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME – SRI LANKA & BANGKOK A higher leadership programme has been arranged at Sri Lanka and Bangkok from 21st February to 25th February 2012. Those who are interested may contact Lion N.Ramachandran, Chief Programme & Projects Co-ordinator (9745566366) for further details with regard to travel, visa arrangements etc. |
