The Vancouver Lions Club is an independent, non-profit corporation, located in Vancouver, Washington USA. Chartered as a member of the International Association Of Lions Clubs on September 12, 1928, it was the first Lions club in Clark County, Washington, and is now one of the the oldest and longest–serving Lions clubs in the world. The Vancouver Lions Club focuses much of its service activities on helping the students at the Washington State School For The Blind (the “WSSB”), the Pacific Foundation For Blind Children (the “PFBC”), the School Of Piano Technology for the Blind (the “Piano Hospital”), and the Washington School for the Deaf (the “WSD”). The Vancouver Lions brought the, now familiar, White Cane Days fund drive to our community, and our members founded what is now known as the Interservice Walk And Knock food drive, an annual food drive conducted the first weekend each December that has been embraced by almost every service club in our community. Our Club endorses the charitable programs of Lions Clubs International, such as SightFirst (a program designed to eliminate preventable blindness around the world), CARE (an organization that helps people in the poorest communities in the world), Lions Clubs International Foundation (a charitable foundation that provides humanitarian services, disaster relief and vocational assistance), and Lions Quest (a program that increases academic achievement, decreases problem behaviors and improves pro–social behaviors for school age children). Our Lions were instrumental in creating, and actively participate in the Lions Sight Foundation of Clark County and the Lions Hearing And Speech Conservation Committee Of Clark County to distribute eyeglasses, hearing aids and medical assistance to persons with sight or hearing disabilities throughout Clark County, Washington.