Diabetes Awareness Booklet
The Lions and Lioness Clubs of the City of Liverpool, with the assistance of a $10,000 grant from the Lions Clubs NSW-ACT Public Health Care Foundation, now have worldwide distribution rights for their enormously successful and widely praised diabetes awareness booklet “What You Need to Know if You Have Type 2 Diabetes”.
To date 80,000 copies of the booklet have been distributed all over NSW and the ACT. The booklet has the support and approval of Diabetes Australia.
The International Association of Lions Clubs recently judged the Club as a finalist in the ’International Challenge to Change Awards’. The Club was honoured at the 2008 Lions Clubs International Convention in Bangkok, Thailand.
The club was also the recipient of the International President’s ‘New Horizons Award in Diabetes Education’.
Version 4 of the booklet is to be produced in the near future (hopefully with the assistance of a further grant from the Public Health Care Foundation) with the aim of wider distribution across Australia and the World.
It has to be said that this is a wonderful example of a project that had, perhaps, small beginnings but with the help of immense dedication and perseverance from a few has resulted in a potential benefit to so many. The Foundation, for its part, and all those Lions, Lioness and others involved are to be warmly congratulated on this achievement.
