The Reading Action Program called for Lions to organize service projects that promote reading. Lions clubs around the world responded with a broad variety of reading programs and donations of books and computers.

What do former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier and New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary have in common? They have all been members of Lions Clubs International.

For the past century, Lions around the world have been willing to meet the call to lead their fellow members. Whether at the club level or the board level, Lions international presidents help set a vision of service and do whatever it takes to…