Welcome to Lions Club of Sibu Host Portal.
Our Club Contact:
P.O. Box 1303,
96008 Sibu,
Sarawak.
Email:
sibuhost@isarawak.org
Region 2, Zone 6, District 308-A2
Chartered date: 9th May, 1967
LCI No. 5234-025639
Reg. Of Societies No. 22/67
Lions Club of Sibu Host was founded on 9th May 1967 and chartered on 17th June 1967 with nineteen members and since its inception the membership has grown to a formidable size of fifty- eight. A famous timber industrialist. Mr. Hii Yu Chiong was installed as the Chartered President on the evening of 17th June 1967. Throughout the past 35 years, Lions Club of Sibu Host has been carrying out numerous community service projects including sponsoring not less than eight hole-in-heart patients to overseas for cardiac surgery providing free medical care for people in the rural areas, conducting career talks for school leavers, awarding scholarships and distributing free spectacles to the poor, cornea transplant for eye patients, Artificial limbs to an accident victims, care for people in the rural areas, conducting meetings and sponsoring many cultural shows and musical recitals for benefit of music lovers, music students and for the promotion of goodwill and understanding through the exchange of cultural performances among the different nations. The biggest project of all was the sponsoring of constructing of the Sibu Golf Course, building a Dinning Hall for the old folks of Sibu Benevolent Society orginising an Aerobatics Air Show and even an international wrestling show in Sibu and many other projects. Under the golf course project, Lions club of Sibu Host raised over $300,000.00 from the Lions members and the public. The 88-acre Golf Course, dotted with beautiful trees, lakes and a clubhouse is the fruit of Sibu Lions initiative and generousity. This Golf course which is situated at 11th mile, Oya Road, Sibu now has 18 holes and a new club house, has been a place for the Sibu public to play a game of golf after a hectic day of business.
The then Sibu Lions Clubs hosted 13th District 308 Lions Convention in 1975 and jointly with Lions Club of Sibu Central, Sibu Mandarin and Sibu Seduan hosted the 34th MD308 Lions Convention in 1996 and MD308 Leo Forum in 1995.
Lions Club of Sibu Host is proud to sponsor the Lions Club of Sibu Mandarin and Lions Club of Sibu Central ( previously known Lioness Club of Sibu ) who subsequently sponsored Lions Club of Sibu Seduan; in the year 1999/2000 Lions Club of Sibu Mandarin sponsored Lions Club of Phalawan which in turn sponsor the Lions Club of Sibu Berjaya making it the sixth Lions Club in Sibu.
With a humble beginning on 9/5/1967 with 18 chartered members, the number of families of Lions Clubs in Sibu including Leos have reached nearly 1,000 strong Lions!
