Lions Clubs#

Lions Clubs (Lions = Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation´s Safety), founded in 1917 by Melvin Jones in Illinois (USA), international, very social-minded club organisation of leading personalities with 44,000 clubs worldwide in 180 countries and 1.4 million members. In Austria, the first club was established in Graz in 1952, in 2000, 193 clubs with about 6,500 members and 19 "Leo Clubs" (for members up to 30 years of age).