
Dear VISITOR,
welcome to the SOPIANAE LEO CLUB's homepage!
LeoNet Hungary
Right before we would talk about ourselves, please, get acquainted
with the term Leo.
If it is not something new for you and you wish to know more about
the Hungarian leoism and especially about the club of Pécs then
click here!
SHORTLY ABOUT LEOS
WHO WE ARE?
Members of a club which is part of the world wide charity
organization called Lions Clubs International, but it works independently. Leo can be each young person between 14 and 30 who
wish to make useful work for the society in a part of his or her
spare time. Our club is independent of any religion and political
ideology. We are keen on to make the friendship among people of the
world stronger through our international relations.
WHAT LEO MEANS?
The word LEO is composed of the first letters of the following words:
Leadership, Experiences, Opportunity.
LEADERSHIP is a basic requirement for our members. (The fact that you want to do something for the community in an organized way.)
EXPERIENCES will be our benefit about a better knowledge of life and people through our activities and the organization.
OPPORTUNITY to reveal our abilities, to know better each other and to make a better world.
Above all of these, the Leo Clubs are communities where everybody can feel all right during the programmes.
HOW IT BEGAN?
The first club was founded in the USA in 1957, Pennsylvania.
Although we had to wait seven years for the second club, it was
followed by a sudden boom. In the year 1967 for example there was
more than 200 club founded world wide.
Nowadays there are more than 112,000 Leos in more than 115
countries and there are 30-40 clubs founded monthly. Like our club, several other Leo clubs have homepages in the world.
THE FIRST IN HUNGARY
The Budapest Leo CLub was founded in September 1990. With works
they help basically the children. They deal regularly with
physically disabled pupils, they organized several times Christmas
carols in kindergartens and children's hospitals. They led a fund
raising for the Autisme Foundation and gave home to the IInd East
Eauropean Leo Workshop in 1995 in Ráckeve.
ABOUT THE SOPIANAE LEO CLUB
Our club in Pécs was Hungary's 5th. We were founded on 22 January 1994 and our Installation Night (=Charter Night) was on 10 May 1994. Our aims are like those of the Budapest Leo Club, we would emphasize the personal contact with the needy, and that means less financial aid, however we organized parties which made the youth move and the
benefit of those soirees went always to predefined purposes like
the aid of the Antidrug Centre of Keszü. We are also organizing
traditionally Christmas carols for needy children and young people.
In 1995 we were helping two families in Sub-Carpathia, in
Ukraine.
Actually, we have established a cooperation with the Megye street
Children's Home of Pécs, we are helping children in their studies
and we make common free time activities.
We fit regularly our activities in with those of our founder, the
Pécs-Normandia Lions Club.
We are proud that among the organization of National Leo Meetings
we had the honour to held the IIIrd East European Leo Workshop
here, in Pécs during the spring of 1996. In 2001, we successfully established exchange with Slovenian Leos.
We would always act in accord with the slogan of the Lions Clubs
International, which is: "We Serve."

If you wish to contact us, you can write directly to the following addresses where our actual president and secretary can be found:
Ákos Herner President
Lívia Kiss Secretary
Other officers for the year 2003/2004:
Zoltán Istók Vice-President
Judit Németh Treasurer
Other Hungarian Leo clubs and their presidents or members with E-mail:
Pest-Buda Leo Club: Szabados Tamás,
Mátyás Weigl
Budapest Salvia Leo Club: Nóra Felker
Győr Leo Club: Gábor Molnár
OUR CLUB'S ARCHIVES
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Made by © Loránd Szabó, on 24th November 1997
Last updated: 24th March 2004

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