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Club with providing services and aids to the blind/visually impaired, and deaf/
hearing impaired. LIF Social Services & Referral does
not pay the bills for helping these people, but utilizes its
expertise in finding assistance through other agencies or
the local Lions Club. It assists the Club in providing
the best care for the impaired individual at a reduced
cost. Our Foundation has access to many different resources and types of aids for the visually and hearing
impaired. All requests handled must be under the approval and sponsorship of
the local Lions Club. The Club is to follow-up on the request and notify our
Foundation of the status of the request within 60 days. In addition to processing requests, LIF Social Services and Referral staff also coordinates the
L.I.F.E. (Lions of Illinois Fund for Emergency) and the H.A.B. (Hearing Aid
Bank).
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SEEING IS BELIEVING
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LIONS
OF ILLINOIS
is located at 1905 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago near the Eye and Ear Infirmary. The Institute,
comprised of Doctors of Medicine, Psychology, staff researchers and technicians, provides advanced technology, studies and research to achieve the goal
of conquering blindness. The Lions of Illinois Eye Research Institute is worldrenowned because of the development of advances through research to find the
causes and cures for eye disease.
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