Pasadena Host Lions Club Honored for Vision Service in Statewide Helen Keller Challenge

The Pasadena Host Lions Club has been recognized among the first 100 California Lions Clubs to complete the Lions Clubs & Helen Keller Challenge 2.0 Club Banner Patch Service Reward Project, a statewide initiative celebrating a century of service inspired by Helen Keller’s 1925 appeal to Lions to become “Knights of the Blind.”

The club received a Certificate of Recognition for fulfilling the challenge’s four core requirements: organizing at least one community vision-screening event, collecting and recycling used eyeglasses for redistribution, supporting a local eye-care or blindness-prevention initiative, and promoting public awareness of preventable blindness. The award includes a specially designed banner patch and was issued by the California Lions Clubs.

According to the certificate text issued by the California Lions Clubs, the recognition celebrates the club’s “unwavering commitment to Lions vision service-branded outreach and honoring the enduring legacy of Helen Keller—this award celebrates your role as true Knights of the Blind, carrying her vision forward for the next 100 years.”

The Pasadena Host Lions Club publicly announced its completion on October 11 via its official Facebook page. The recognition was signed by California Lions Marketing Team representatives Jennifer Gass and Donna Marie Rollins, who served as project co-captains for the campaign.

Each certificate also features the Lions Clubs & Helen Keller Challenge 2.0 emblem, which includes an image of Helen Keller and a lion, as well as the California Lions Clubs MD4 logo.

The Helen Keller Challenge 2.0 was coordinated by the California Lions Clubs and required participating clubs to submit documentation of their service activities by the end of September. The Pasadena Host Lions Club was honored alongside clubs from Apple Valley, Pomona, and across California. The initiative marks 100 years since Keller’s historic speech at the Lions Clubs International Convention, reinforcing the organization’s long-standing focus on vision care and advocacy.