Tag Archives: Measles Initiative
Question & Answer: What are the Benefits of Vaccines?
Question: What are the benefits of vaccines? Answer: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vaccines have three main benefits: personal benefits, community benefits and future benefits. A vaccine’s benefit to each individual is protection from dangerous diseases. … Continue reading
Double Your Donation’s Impact
Lions are just over halfway to meeting the Gates Foundation’s challenge of raising $10 million for measles. Now, when you make a donation to LCIF and to the One Shot, One Life: Lions Measles Initiative, you can have twice the … Continue reading
Video of the Week: Crying Baby Symphony
Do not let the cries of these babies from around the world bring you a down. They quickly dissolve into laughter, and the message from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation becomes loud and clear: Vaccines save lives!
Fundraising Ideas for the Second Half of the Challenge Grant
Donations to the One Shot, One Life: Lions Measles Initiative have reached over $5 million. That means Lions and LCIF are halfway to our goal of raising $10 million to meet the Gates Foundation challenge grant. Thank you, Lions! You … Continue reading
Photo of the Week: Measles Vaccination in Nepal
Thanks to your donations, Lions and LCIF were able to help vaccinate this child and many others in Nepal against measles during a campaign in February 2012. Almost 10 million children will be vaccinated in Nepal this year through the … Continue reading