How Lions are helping to "Rebuild Joplin"

Updated January 1, 2012

May 22, 2011 is a day that we will never forget...

We have watched on TV about the devastation that has happened in Joplin, others have lived it! An F5 tornado swept through the southern half of Joplin with killing so far 160 people taking 30% of there town away. The tornado has totally taking everyone's life by storm in some direction & giving everyone a new look in life. Around 30,000+ volunteers have helped in so many directions so it could help ease the minds of those the tornado has affected. Joplin is part of our district and we will "Serve" them to restore there lives back to normal living standards.

IPDG Debbie's Up-Date

Here is the nutshell version of what we have been up to here in District 26-M6.

~ Lots of Lions have volunteered their time & donations of money from around the United States.
~ Without LCIF grants we wouldn’t be able to help SO many people as we did. THANK YOU LCIF!!!!
~ We have established a dedicated phone number to coordinate volunteer efforts along with an e-mail address. These services will be up & running for as long as we see the need for them.
~ Established a place where you can send your donation to help put Joplin back together again.
~ Made & hand out “Energy Packs” (propel, trail mix, & energy bar; along with sticker on them saying “provided by the Lions who care about you” with a Lions logo) for victims & volunteers just days after the tornado happened.
~ Joplin Host Lions; with assistance from other Lions across Missouri, grilled hamburgers & hot dogs for several days & driving around handing out to people cleaning up. Vehicles had a large Lions logo on them along with Lions having their Lions shirts on.
~ We bought & distributed; work gloves, sunscreen, water & lots of children’ shoes.
~ Took several families who lost everything in the tornado to Food 4 Less & helped get them $100 worth of food vouchers increments.
~ Joplin Host Lions brought their Caboose & made free snow cones for everyone.
~ District M6 Lions teamed up with First Response Team of America to help clean up debris for victims of the tornado.
~ So far we have cleared 42 home & 185 stumps.
~ Signs have been made to display at the work sites to let everyone know that Lion Club & First Response Team of America helped clean up this lot.
~ Blind Association Project.
~ We will be tree purchase/planting project in Joplin, Mo.
~ Helped around 40 women & children from the Lafayette House Project to shop for groceries who have lost their homes in the tornado.
~ District M6 & Joplin Host has made a $5,000 donation to the Joplin Schools for a total of $10,000.
~ Billboards with Lions Club & First Response Team of America coming out soon...be on the look out around Joplin, Mo.

We are proud to announce there is 6 different signs up around Joplin.

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LCIF Chairperson Sid Scruggs & Staff members visits tornado area in Joplin, Mo

July, 25, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – Local resident and Lions Clubs International Foundation Chairperson (LCIF) Sid L.Scruggs, III visits tornado-ravaged Joplin, MO this week to help provide immediate need for victims of the devastating tornado.

Scruggs will work alongside area Lions members to continue relief efforts, which includes a seemingly never-ending debris removal effort. To date Lions clubs members have cleared almost 20 home sites down to the cement slab, to get ready for a rebuild. Scruggs will also visit the Joplin Blind Association to assess the needs of more than 60 blind and visually impaired individuals who have been homeless since the tornado struck in May. Scruggs will conclude the week with a visit to the Lafayette House—a shelter for battered women and children. He and Lions members will take the residents of Lafayette House grocery shopping with funds provided by Lions Clubs International Foundation. Read more (PDF format).

LCIF Media News.... LCIF Providing Relief Following Destructive Tornadoes...Click here to read more & see Joplin Photos.

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MAKING THE NEWS
Joplin Globe... JOPLIN, Mo. The Joplin School District received donations this week totaling more than $19,000. Read more
Shopping spree for tornado victims (click on logo to read)	Heart of a Lion (click on logo to read)	Lions Clubs International BLOG of the week: Lions, LCIF Distaster Relief Efforts Continue in Joplin. LCIF Chairperson Sid Scruggs visits (Click on picture to read)

First Response & Lions Club
is teaming up to rebuild Joplin. Check out their website, click on logo.

We made the flyer too.

Click on flyer to read about it.

Joplin makes the Lions International Magazine. On page 42 & 43. Click on magazine to read article. Takes a little to load.

Flyer given out at COG
FLYER

How to Donate

If any clubs would like to make a money donation to Joplin Host Lions and the Relief Efforts. There are a couple ways you can help and send your donations to:

District Cabinet Treasurer Jim Wilson - 1551 Powell - Springfield, MO 65804.

1. Make the checks to "Lions International MD 26-M6" and in the memo, put "Joplin Relief Efforts".

2. You also can help keep Tad with First Response Team of America in Joplin by putting in the memo section "Clean up Joplin".

3. The Joplin Host Lions are proud to present a series of three commemorative pins memorializing the May 22nd EF5 joplin pins

tornado that has forever changed the City, & those that live within, of Joplin, Mo. ALL profit from the sale of the 3 commemorative pins will go towards funds to build a Memorial park in remembrance of those who died & towards continuing tornado relief. Read more of how you can get your own set of these wonderful pins & you can be a part of the rebuilding Joplin, Mo. (picture of them on right side)

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Items needed

Lion Guy Voltz of Joplin had a cell phone repair and refurbishing business that was wiped out in the tornado. He is rebuilding his store but is in desperate need of old cell phones. Anyone wishing to donate cell phones to him can call Carol or Sandy Schwartz @ 913-492-3347 or drop off cell phones at Dr. Tom Dukes office 400 E. Red Bridge Rd. ste. 308 Kansas City, MO. We will deliver them to him in Joplin. Please help a fellow Lion. Thanks Carol Schwartz Lions Disaster Response Team