The Autism Lions Movement in Australia continues unabated with the addition of the third club in the Movement, the North Queensland ASD Lions Club! As with Melbourne Autism’s charter night, it was only proper that we showed our support for this equally momentous occasion, so once again, we sent our president Tom up north to […]
This month, we decided to embark upon our most ambitious undertaking to date: running – to our knowledge – the world’s first hackathon to be run by a Lions Club![1] Being an autistic-themed Lions Club, it was only fitting that our hackathon had an autistic theme. Equally fitting was the name we gave our little […]
The Autism Lions Movement continues to grow apace, all around the world! We were honoured to have members of the Lefkoşa Başkent Lions Kulübü (Nicosia Capital Lions Club, in Turkish) based on the island of Cyprus, attend our meeting this month! Hoş geldiniz! We were told about projects they have carried out since their inception […]
Here at SACLC, we like to promote the idea of Autistic Acceptance as opposed to “autism awareness”, and naturally, as a dedicated Lions Club, we promote Autistic Acceptance year-round, not just in any particular month, compared to what we have done in the past. Nevertheless, an opportunity for us to promote our club as well […]
Our honoured guest at our meeting this month was Charif Kaiss, Founder and President of the not-for-profit organisation Crush Kancer with a Smile, who gave a moving and inspiring talk on conquering your fears and overcoming adversity… all the way from Lebanon! Whilst this is certainly a diversion from our usual autistic-themed programme of talks […]
We are pleased to announce that our recent fundraising efforts have enabled us to purchase a therapeutic trampoline for a four-year old Autistic girl, valued at $1600, which will surely bring about an incalculable improvement in her quality of life as well as her family. We were approached by the girl’s occupational therapist, who recommended […]
This week, SACLC answered the call and rose to the challenge of providing relief for a local Sydney family with an autistic child in need. Upon receiving the call from the single mother in dire straits in desperate need of food, we sprung into action and put together a hamper of food and delivered it […]
SACLC have been collaborating with our siblings at the Melbourne Autism Lions Club on an exciting new project we have dubbed the Lions Autism Media Project, or LAMP for short. Our goal for LAMP is to create a place for members of the ever-growing Lions Autism Community to work on and share skills on media […]
We had a clinical psychologist come to our Club meeting this month — Dr. Bettina Christl, of Heart and Mind Psychology! Bettina’s talk was of particular interest to our audience, since she has autistic patients amongst her many clients that come to her practice. Bettina’s talk was very well received by everyone who came. Many […]
SACLC has successfully completed a fundraiser in the form of a bicycling challenge that lasted for the month of September. The plan was to have as many members of our club get on their bikes as possible. However, only our President Tom decided to go through with the challenge. To be fair, it was a […]