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What We Do

Service that spans cultures, built for Sydney.

We serve across the 8 Lions Australia Causes through a multicultural lens — our active work right now focuses on cutting food waste, easing cost of living, and keeping Sydney's shared spaces welcoming for every community.

SMULC volunteers standing behind a shopping trolley piled with rescued food
Aldi Food Rescue · weekly service
Signature Projects

The work we're doing — and the work we're building toward.

Our active projects run weekly and monthly; others are in the scoping stage now.

SMULC members loading rescued produce into a vehicle at an Aldi food rescue shift
Active · Weekly

Aldi Food Rescue

Lions Cause · Hunger Relief

In partnership with Aldi, we rescue surplus food before it goes to waste and redirect it to Sydney families who need it.

Impact
  • Reduces supermarket food waste
  • Eases cost of living for local families
  • Builds connections across cultural communities through shared volunteering
SMULC members and families posing after a Sydney park clean-up with filled rubbish bags
Active · Monthly

Community Clean-Up

Lions Cause · Environmental Projects

Regular clean-up drives around Strathfield and surrounding suburbs — keeping shared public spaces welcoming for every community that uses them.

Impact
  • Cleaner streets, parks, and train-station precincts
  • A visible multicultural Lions presence in the community
  • An accessible on-ramp for anyone curious about Lions
SMULC diabetes prevention and healthy-eating seminar — community health education session with a presenter and attendees
Active · Recurring

Diabetes Prevention Seminar

Lions Cause · Diabetes Prevention

Community health seminars on nutrition and diabetes prevention — delivered in the languages our multicultural members speak, hosted in partnership with local health resources.

Impact
  • Health education reaches communities typically under-served by English-only materials
  • Practical guidance on fruit, diet, and lifestyle for diabetes risk reduction
  • Warm on-ramp for newcomer families to Lions health programs
Multicultural choir performing at a community event with families singing together
Scoping

Newcomer Welcome

Lions Cause · Humanitarian

Practical welcome support for recently arrived migrants and international students in Sydney — settlement info, community connections, and a first Lions friend.

Impact
  • Lower barrier to belonging for newcomers
  • Multilingual touchpoints via our board's language capabilities
  • Referrals to Lions Vision, Hearing, and Diabetes programs
SMULC family members collecting rubbish in a Sydney park during a community clean-up
Planned

Youth Leaders in Diversity

Lions Cause · Youth

A mentorship pathway for young people from migrant and multicultural backgrounds — developing the next generation of community leaders.

Impact
  • Lions Youth program alignment
  • Leadership experience for under-served youth
  • Direct line into Leo Club opportunities

Have a project idea to propose? Reach out — charter-year member projects shape SMULC's first years.

Lions Australia Causes

The eight ways Lions serve.

Lions Australia organises its national service under these 8 Causes. SMULC serves across all of them through a multicultural lens — the highlighted ones are where our active projects sit today.

Active

Hunger Relief

Food rescue and community food support — our Aldi food rescue project redirects surplus food to families, cutting food waste and easing cost of living.

Active

Environmental Projects

Community clean-up drives around Strathfield and beyond — keeping shared spaces welcoming for every community that uses them.

Humanitarian

Practical help for people doing it tough — newcomer support, settlement assistance, and responding to local need as it arises.

Youth

Leadership, mentorship, and opportunities for young people from migrant and multicultural backgrounds through Lions Youth programs.

Vision & Hearing Programs

Connecting Sydney's multicultural communities with Lions vision and hearing screening, especially newcomers unfamiliar with local services.

Active

Diabetes Prevention

Multilingual health education seminars on nutrition and lifestyle — because diabetes prevention starts with understanding, delivered in the languages our communities speak.

Childhood Cancer Research

Supporting Lions Australia's childhood cancer research through fundraising and community awareness.

Emergency & Disaster Relief

Standing ready with the Lions Australia emergency response network when disasters hit — at home and abroad.

How We Work

Service, the Lions way.

  1. 01

    Listen to community need

    Projects start from listening — to newcomers, to elders, to young people, to each of Sydney's cultural communities.

  2. 02

    Plan with diverse voices at the table

    Our project teams are deliberately multicultural. Better projects come from more perspectives.

  3. 03

    Serve side by side

    We show up together. Food rescue shifts, clean-up days, outreach — Lions members are hands-on, every time.

  4. 04

    Share what we learn

    Every project's story goes into our bulletin and onto this site, so Sydney knows what's possible.

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