Lions
Club Askola |
Lions
Club Askola |
Meeting on the 3rd Thursday of each
month at 7 pm (from
September to May) in
Prestbacka Manor, Myrskyläntie 526, 07590 Askola/Huuvari,
Finland
Mobile phone: +358-400 804 883
E-mail: merja.anttila@prestbacka.fi Back to finnish index
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to the web sites of Lions Club Askola!!
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Here you have a brief introduction about our Club.
Community and Club
Askola is a small rural municipality some 60
kilometers
eastwards from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Our municipality has about 4300
inhabitants. Our club has also members from neighboring Pukkila, another small, but
active rural municipality with slightly over 2000 inhabitants. Most municipalities in Finland -
there are still well over 300 of them - are small like ours. Reasonable or not, but this has to be seen
as an expression of the Finns being true individuals, who are very skeptic about all kinds
of bureaucracy!
Our neighboring city in the south is the coastal city of Porvoo on Gulf of Finland.
A map
for closer orientation
here!
Our Club was chartered in 1961 and has currently 41 members of whom 4 belong to the Fellowship of Melvin Jones. The main activities of our club have mostly been focused on youth and elderly. Our meetings in the period 2012-2013 are taking place in Prestbacka Manor in Askola/Huuvari. Click here!
Activities
Lions Quest-training programs for school teachers and parents have been financed by our club as well as scholarships for international youth exchange. Drug abuse has become a problem among the youth also in our small rural communities similar to the unfortunate trends all over Europe. Our club is committed to tackle this problem and we have been financing our Lions Quest-program by arranging church concerts with great success.
Moreover elderly people have received rehabilitation appliances making their daily life easier and preventing premature hospitalization. Additionally we have arranged transports to various events for elderly people as well as supported war veterans in their own activities.
Internationally we participated in the last world wide Sight
First-campaign with a considerable contribution for an eye clinic in Equador.
The years 2007-2008 were again new Sight First-campaign years and the aim of
Lions Finland is to
establish an eye clinic in Sri Lanka. Lions world wide are dedicated to sight
and therefore often called the Knights of the blind in the crusade against
darkness!
Several nation wide
so called Red Feather-campaigns 
have been
carried out since the 1970ties for various purposes like prevention/research of
cancer, heart diseases or rehabilitation of elderly. In the year 2006 a new nation wide
Red Feather-campaign was performed with a target to raise 1 Euro per every citizen in
the country. The clubs all over the country worked hard to
achieve this ambitious target by the end of the year 2006. Our club had a share
and target of 5600 euros to fulfill. Our club doubled this target and we achieved
again - of course - a leading position
in the competition with other clubs in our zone! The purpose of the
campaign this time was to support children and youth.
The Ladies of LC Askola have two foster children named Anusha and Suranji- whose educations are sponsored by the club - in Sri Lanka. Anusha and Suranji are hard-working pupils improving well in their studies. A picture of Anusha and Suranji here! Similarly the club has since autumn 2005 a foster son named Chanuka also in Beliatta and since the autumn 2007 we added his little brother Dinuka to our foster child program. You can find their picture here!
We Serve and Contacts
We are active Lions hoping and working for a better world
for all of us in north or south, west or east and we are doing our job with joy and good
hearth. We hope you feel the same in your club and would be delighted to hear about you
and your club activities.
Perhaps you sometime visit Finland and even Askola! - Welcome!
Dear Lion, do please visit our club meetings!
Kindly call first our club secretary lion Markku Koivisto, phone +358-40-7092451.
Or - even better - write about your visit plan directly to us through our clubs e-mail
askola@lions.fi.
Meeting days: see head line.
Do not hesitate to let us hear about you and your club
activities through our e-mail!
We also welcome other questions and comments.
We think it would be very useful for all of us to know more about each other!
We
are all belonging to the same Family - We are Lions!
List of our current Club officers here!
Yours in
Lionism,
Lions Club Askola
e-mail: askola@lions.fi
Club President 2011-2012:
Lion JUHA NIEMINEN
Post address: Tervapellontie 3
FIN-07230 Monninkyla
Finland
Webmaster of Lions Club Askola: lion Lars Rosenberg
lars.rosenberg@fimnet.fi
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of Finnish Lions Clubs
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