International Lions Club President, Wing Kun Tam, recognized Mazatlán’s Mayor Alejandro Higuera for his assistance in bringing the conference to the city with the presentation of the Lions Club Medal of Honour. The following day the Lions Club President was presented in turn with a key to the city at a municipal cabinet meeting.
Wing Kun Tam assured the Mayor that the Club will continue with its program of providing free cataract surgery for children with limited means in the municipality.
At the conference, delegates put forward a proposal to expand their altruistic programs to include assistance to victims of natural disasters globally by providing food, water, clothing and medicine. The Club had begun the program when it sent emergency supplies to victims of earthquakes in Haiti and China and the tsunami in Asia.
The international club has begun an ecological program with the view to planting millions of trees throughout the world. As a symbol of the program, representatives at the conference planted a tree on the Av. Leonismo Internacional.
Present at the conference were representatives from Brasil, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Guatemala, Paraguay, Panama, Ecuador, French Guyana, the United States, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, as well as Spain, France, Australia, India, South Korea and China.
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