Grants received by Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host

On January 12^th 2018 Francis Liew had responded to the newspaper report on “Club gets show cause from RoS” dated 11.1.2018.One of his statements is as follows:

The funds for our Rural Water Projects and the Hostel for needy students come from our joint project partners, an overseas Lions Club and from Lions Club International.

“For all these projects, all funds shortages or excesses are for the account of our club” he (Francis Liew) said.

The following is from the internet:

 The Articles of Incorporation of The International Association of Lions Clubs state that the association is organized, among other things, "to govern all such chartered clubs so that they shall be ….. not for profit of the individual club or its individual members." ( DG Robert Hoofnagle)

The articles are written in a way that no club or individual may benefit in any form from any public donation or funds from sister clubs or from LCIF or LCI.

For your information ;

Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) supports Lion’s compassionate works by providing grant funding for their local and global humanitarian efforts.

The funding received by LCKK Host for the gravity water projects and the Talantang Hostel project is from grants from LCIF and not from LCI as suggested by Francis Liew above.

To confirm even further I wrote to LCIF and was told the following:

“Grant funds awarded to a Club/District/Multiple District may only be used for the purpose or project as approved by LCIF. These funds are not discretionary funds and cannot be used for any other reasons. In fact, any unused grant funds at the conclusion of a project must be returned to LCIF.”

Francis Liew is advised not to follow in the footsteps of John SF Ho who tried to hood wink the members by misrepresenting what Kim Goldsworthy had written.

Note: The water gravity project is jointly funded by a Japanese Sister club and LCIF together with other foreign donations and local donations.

The recent Talantang school hostel project was funded by LCIF, a Korean club, donations from other overseas clubs and donations collected locally. Whichever way you look at it there is no basis for using any of these monies for administrative purposes.

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln