Lions Center for The Visually Impaired

With the unspeakable tragedies to two mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder on our minds, our hearts grieve for the victims and their families. The Lions Center for the Visually Impaired represents a unique minority group of blind and visually impaired people, with a keen sensitivity and compassion for other minority groups facing discrimination and violence. So we stand in solidarity with our Asian American and Pacific Islander community now, as they face alarming rates of increasing anti-Asian violence. We urge our local and national leaders to work together to find real solutions to the issues that contribute to the rising levels of hate crimes and gun violence in the U.S. A couple of related links: https://www.pbs.org//what-you-can-do-to-fight-violence-and https://visionaware.org//violent-crime-against-people-who/

Lions Center for the Visually Impaired (LCVI) stands against violence and racism towards Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr states In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...This is the inter-related structure of reality.