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 […]
Thanks to all of you who came to our inaugural online trivia fundraiser, hosted on ZOOM by the amazingly affable, and tremendously talented club secretary, Ilya! It was an unmitigated success. We raised $127 and fun was had by all The proceeds of the fundraiser will go towards the LCIF fund for the recent explosion […]
SACLC hosted a well-attended, informative and engaging presentation by Mike Tozer, CEO of Xceptional on the subject of autistic employment. It is an unfortunate fact that the unemployment rate for adult autistic people is significantly higher than that of the general population. Organisations such as Xceptional are leading the charge in redressing the imbalance, harnessing […]
Did you know… While we are the first Autism Lions Club in Australia, we are only second in the world? The first Autism Lions Club in the world is the Lions Club of Penang Bukit Bendera, in the northern Malaysian state of Penang. Bukit Bendera (Malay for “Flag Hill”) was created for the parents of […]
A grand tradition of Lions Clubs far and wide is the changeover meeting, in which the newly elected Club Board are welcomed and inaugurated. It is indeed a special occasion! We took this as an opportunity to relaunch our club. We sent out invitations to other Lions and members of the autistic community. In all, […]