Lion Brian Geber, Edgewood, and Lion Rita Graham, ABQ Breakfast, dropped off 10,000 pair of donated eyeglasses to Sagebrush Enchanted Hills Eyeglass processing location. Kristen Johnson is their Eye Clinic Director (top right). Requested Lions help a year ago. They were unable to collect donated glasses to meet their ministry needs. They came to Lions and Lions answered!!!

Instructions for Free postage to mail eyeglasses to the Texas Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center.

Jennifer Halphen (second from the left), President of the Four Corners Stockman’s Association (FCSA) was invited to do a presentation at the Farmington Evening Lions Club meeting to introduce the FCSA and its work to the club. One of the Global Causes for the Lions Clubs is Youth Empowerment bringing the work of FCSA to the forefront.

Our community is very generous to donate their used eyeglasses. This is the second counting we have done this year alone. We counted 1387 prescription glasses and 292 Readers and Sunglasses and have cases for almost all of the prescription glasses. Our club had 10 Club members who came out to support us and/or count glasses.

Farmington Evening Lions Club presents a $1,000 check to Melissa Wilkins with the ARC at their meeting on May 18th.

Farmington Evening Lions Club continues donations to the Children’s Hope Foundation with a second $5,000 donation

The New Mexico Lions Eye Foundation Officers and Trustees can’t thank Lions enough for their support through the second half of this year. We didn’t sell all of our Raffle tickets but generous Club donations helped to make up the difference. There aren’t sufficient words to express our gratitude to all the Lions who participated.

Recently our club members (Carlsbad Community Lions Club), along with some help from the Carlsbad Downtown Lions Club members participated in The Hand Project - assembling prosthetic hand kits that will help restore independence, confidence, and opportunity for individuals around the world.

D40 LCIF END of YEAR REPORT July 2025 - June 2026

We kindly request your assistance in strengthening our impact through a club donation to the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) by June 15, 2026. Club donations unify our giving, so LCIF can fund programs that improve health, strengthen communities, and support those in need. Let's make District 40 stand out. Imagine every club in our district donating to LCIF, no matter the size of the donation.

Clovis Evening Lions has started a new project to help people in need of a meal. We have teamed up with Foxy's Drive In and Matt 25 Hope Center to provide a meal to someone in need. Foxy's will give the person a few meal choices and then will get them fed. Matt 25 is our local non-profit organization that helps people with any need they may have. They will give an individual a meal ticket that they can bring to Foxy's. Pay It Forward.

The Keep Ruidoso Downs Beautiful and Parks Program requested donations from the Ruidoso Evening Lions Club. They were seeking Baskets and bicycles. We were able to donate two bikes and six baskets. We also volunteered our time to help pass out baskets and toys and. We are already brainstorming with the Keep Ruidoso Downs Beautiful and Parks team about how we can help even more next year.

The Ruidoso Little Leaguers were in need! A local community member let us know that the ball tosser was shredding balls and hurting kids. They didn't have the proper ball tossing machine that the small players needed. Thanks to the generosity of Lions and our local community, enough money was raised for two ball toss machines. One for Ruidoso and one for near by Capitan as well.

For our environment service project we had the privilege of partnering with River Crossing Ministries. The deviation of the floods last year left the area behind the church leading up to the river scattered with debris, fallen limbs and dirt. They were in need of help cleaning up the area behind the church. With the help of church staff and volunteers and Lions volunteers we were able to make the area more beautiful and safe for the community. Serving together makes everythin

Sofie's clothes distribution day. Always a great success helping the community.

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During the District 40 Cabinet Meeting in Moriarity, NM on March 7, 2026, Farmington Evening Lions Club President Wesley W. Brown, Jr. presented a $500 check to Lion Rita Graham, who represented NM KidSight. It is our club’s privilege to support NMLOK in their efforts to help all children of NM.

Thank you to everyone who supported the LCIF Melvin Jones Birthday Campaign and championed the effort to bring new donors to our global foundation. Your support helped us achieve our US$2 million goal and increased awareness of the powerful role LCIF plays in strengthening our service.

What a busy month March has been and April is looking very similar at the moment. We had a very good Q3 Cabinet meeting in Moriarty and a successful service project. This project was a bit different, we combined a couple of aspects of Community together by meeting people at the door of a local restaurant and giving them tickets for their drinks. This gave us an opportunity to showcase Lions in action as well as talking to people about Lionism and our mission, marketing, recru