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Report of Wayanad. Details will follow. Requesting all the PST to
initiate the participants from your club. Probables should be
GMT Secretary, Treasurer, or First Vice President.
I thank all the leaders for their unstinting support showed
Dear Lion Leaders,
towards me for the last three years to complete all the
Warm greetings from your GMT
leadership programmes in a befitting manner. My sincere
Co-ordinator
thanks to PDGs ,Lion CA A J Mathew MJF, Lion K Sujith
We have completed the first half of
MJF and our beloved District Governor Lion CA
our Lionistic year. Our beloved
Shivaprasad MJF for the whole hearted support showered
District Governor is taking lots of
upon me. My heartful thanks to all cabinet members who
pain to implement all the activities in our District in a helped me for the last thrèe years. Hope you all will
meticulous way. support me in my further endeavours.
Regarding membership and club extension, so far we have With warm regards,
added 360 plus members, but there is a drop of 260 plus.We Jai Lionism.
have sponsored four new clubs so far and the fifth one is Lion Dr O V Sanal MJF
pending.The new clubs are,Lions club of Alavil,Lions club GLT Coordinator
of Chirakkal,Lions club of Poinachi and Lions club of Lion Dist 318 E
Cheeral. I take this opportunity to congratulate all the
leaders who made this possible.Special congratulations to
Lion Adv Govindan,GMT member in charge of club Report of
extension. But unfortunately ,two clubs in our District were PRO
cancelled by the International for failing to meet the
international obligations.They are Lions club of Alakode My dear Lion friends,
Mary Matha college and Lions club of Parappa.Our It makes me proud to be a Lion
efficient RCs and ZCs have promised to our DG that they watching the photos of several
will try to sponsor more new clubs so that we can achieve novel service projects and activities.
our target by the end of this lionistic year.We have The clubs are carrying out several
conducted a mass induction ceremony on January 13 th, our
Founder's Day as part of our Centennial Celebrations.The innovative and excellent service projects this year which
most important aspect which happens always is the drop creates a very good image among public for our
from our clubs and let us all try our best to retain organisation. My hearty congratulations to all the
members.I am sure all the leaders will take more interest in Presidents, Region Chairpersons and Zone Chairpersons
this aspect. At present, we have a total membership of 4150 and District officers for their untiring efforts.
plus. We have celebrated our Centennial Year on 13th January
Wishing you all success in your endeavours in the New 2017 at Tagore Centenary Hall in a befitting manner with
Year. several service activities and entertainment programmes.
Yours in Lionism Past International Director R Murugan PMJF was our
Lion.P.K.Krishnanunni Raja PMJF Chief Guest. Our Hero and Metro man Dr E. Sreedharan
District GMT Co-ordinator was honoured with Big Achiever Award. Renowned Singer
and Music Director and writer Kaithapram Damodaran
Report of Nampoothiri was honoured. We have conducted a Press
Conference on 12th January at Calicut and the programmes
GLT were widely reported by news papers and media. National
Integration and Communal Harmony Rally under the
Dear members , leadership of Lion Adv. Surendran starting from Bathery
"Greetings from GLT ". and covering the four districts was an excellent PR
We are reaching fag end of our programme.
lionistic year. All the clubs in our Community marriage organised under the leadreship of DC
district are busy with service Lion Valsala Gopinath on 12 th December at Calicut was
activities. another excellent program. The progam was well attended
All the leaders are very much interested to make by the public with presence of several luminaries including
contributions to Lions Clubs International Foundation. We Mayor of Calicut, Sri.Thottathil Ravindran and Member of
are in positive side as far as membership growth is Parliament Sri. Raghavan.
concerned. Lions Club of Kozhikode Feroke celebrated its Silver
We successfully completed Region Leadership Jubilee on 26th January 2017. Our District Governor Lion
Programmes within time. All the Region Chairpersons and CA Shivaprasad K MJF inaugurated the function and
Zone Chairpersons well cooperated with the programme. International Director Lion Er Dhanapalan PMJF was the
Thanks to all from the bottom of my heart. Special thanks Chief Guest and he launched the Silver Jubilee Service
to our coordinator PMCC Lion K T Ajith MJF for the Project of construction of building for the Community
valuable advice. We, the GLT, completed almost all the Palliative Care Society, Thiruvannur at a cost of around Rs.
programmes well in advance. We have to conduct one 12 Lacs.
more programme to finish leadership programmes for the PDG and Guiding Lion of the club Lion K T Raghunath
year. District Lions Leadership Institute (DLLI ) is going MJF was honoured. The programme was well attended
to be conduced on 8th & 9th April. We have not yet with presence of First VDG, Second VDG, IPDG, PMCC
finalised the venue. Most probably either in Ootty or and Past District Governors and District Cabinet Officers.

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