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 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 […]
Service is at the very heart of all Lions Clubs and SACLC is no exception! So when Plumtree, a leading not-for-profit organisation that supports young, disabled and autistic children and their families, was in need of assistance for their annual End of Year Celebration, SACLC answered the call and made their way to their Marrickville […]