Our Projects

Farmers Market

Shopping at our Farmers Markets is a healthy decision not only for you, but for our community’s economy as well. For every dollar spent at our Market, another two dollars ripple through the provincial economy. In Ontario alone, sales at Farmers Market total almost $500 million, leading to an economic impact of an astounding $1.5 billion!

Lions Quest

Lions Quest is a program supported by Lions Clubs

Lions Quest Programs are school-based resources that help young people develop fundamental social and emotional competencies related to Provincial Learning Outcomes. For more information on the Lions Quest Programs please visit our website at www.lionsquest.ca.

Lions Quest Canada is a registered charitable organization dedicated to fostering positive youth development by producing and disseminating effective tools to empower and unite caring adults in all aspects of young people’s lives. These tools include innovative and well-researched programs, products, training and services for youth, parents, educators, and community leaders.

Click: Lions Quest Canada Mission, Core Values and Beliefs
For details on other future sessions please call Kay Nelles, Events Coordinator, Lions Quest Canada 1-800-265-2680 ext. 102, or kay@lionsquest.ca

Lions Reading Action Program

The Lions Reading Action Program is a multi-year commitment undertaken by Lions Club International to increasing reading and literacy rates. It’s a call to action for Lions club around the world to organize service projects and activities that underscore the importance of reading and address specific needs related to illiteracy within their own community.

The Mississauga Central Lions Club has participated in this program since 2012. Our chosen method from 2012 through 2015 was to help provide funding to selected schools in Mississauga to provide new reading materials to their libraries. Each year we selected needy schools participating in the “Indigo Love of Reading Foundation Adopt a School Program” to contribute to. In our first three years we contributed almost 600 books helping make more books accessible to our youth to improve their opportunity for literacy.

Schools benefitted:

Brookmede Public School – 2015
Camilla Road Sr. Public School – 2013
Corpus Christi Separate School – 2013
Credit Valley Public School – 2015
Dixie Public School – 2013
Floradale Public School – 2013, 2014, 2015
Munden Park Public School – 2015
Riverside Public School – 2014
St. Valentine School – 2013
The Valleys Sr. Public School – 2014

From 2016 to 2018 the club chose to give its entire annual contribution for the Reading Action Program to “Books With No Bounds“. It is an organization run by two Young Leo Club members. They call themselves “Teens on a Mission”. Their mission to bring books to their fellow brothers and sisters in the North in hopes of improving literacy skills among First Nations youth.

Opportunity: Our club is open to considering new ways to improve the literacy of our youth. If you have an idea for us to consider, please email us at lions@lionscentral.com

Tree Planting

Why plant trees?

There are 2.1 million trees in Mississauga which improve the environment, health and quality of life for all. Trees provide many benefits by helping:

Improve air quality and clean air
Reduce smog and the effects of pollution
Create shade
Provide habitat for birds and other wildlife
Decrease energy demand for cooling in summer (by shading buildings) and heat in winter (through windbreaks)
Prevent flooding and reduce peak stormwater run-off volumes
Increase property values and aesthetics that strengthen communities
Encourage healthy living and mental well-being

Join the One Million Trees program as we celebrate our 10-year anniversary and help enhance Mississauga’s open spaces and forested areas for future generations to enjoy.
Whether you participate in a City tree planting event or plant on your private property, each tree counts. Add your tree to our tally and have it count towards the City’s goal of planting one million trees.

Peace Essay Contest

Each fall our club runs the Lions Clubs International Peace Poster and Peace Essay Contest in the Greater Mississauga Area.

The contest theme is changed each year, and is announced in June at www.lionsclubs.org/peaceposter. The theme for our 2024-2025 contest is “Peace Without Limits”. The Contest is open to students who will be 11, 12 or 13 years of age on November 15th of the current year. Proof of Birth date is required. General contest guidelines for each contest may be found below. Inquiries regarding these contests can be directed to peacepostercontest@lionscentral.com. One international grand prize winner will receive an award and US$5,000.

Dog Guide Program

Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides empowers Canadians living with disabilities to navigate their world with confidence and independence, by providing a Dog Guide at no cost and supporting them in their journey together. Located in Oakville, Ontario with a breeding and training facility in Breslau (between Kitchener and Guelph), we are the only school to train Dog Guides in seven distinct programs. From breeding to rearing and training with a life-time of follow-up services, each Dog Guide is $35,000 to train and place. The Foundation relies on donations to provide these special matches and does not receive any government funding.

Recycle For Sight

Recycle for Sight October 26, 2020 and 2023

Eyeglasses Collected for “Recycle for Sight” shipped to Lions Recycling Centre in Calgary

On Monday October 26, 2020 Lion Bob Gullins of Lakeshore Lions Club, Lion Wayne Hoey and another Lion from the Weston Lions Club, helped PDG Lion Dam Dako & PDG Lion Jeffrey Friedman pack four vans with 137 boxes containing 26,603 pairs of used eyeglasses, frames and loose lenses.

The glasses where then driven to Day & Ross Trucking in Brampton, where they were then transported to our Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Our thanks to the District’s clubs that participate in this project for the glasses they collected, thanks as well to the volunteers who helped count and pack all of these boxes.

Readers: If you have used eyeglasses to donate visit www.recycleforsight.ca for your closest collection point.