With the vision to empower the less privileged and with the spirit of service to humanity which Lions Club International is known for the incoming District Governor of District 404 B1, Lion Waheed Kadiri, and his team have pledged to make sight conservation project among students and youth empowerment his top priority in his one year tenure as governor of the club for 2016-2017. Speaking during a press conference to disclose his plans for his jurisdiction which comprises of Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States in the next one year, Kadiri, a former Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta (Mapoly) said he believed that through the sight project, a better future would be assured for school children who would not have known that their visual challenges are amenable to treatment. Kadiri, whose investiture is slated for August 25, further explained that the project will touch about 60,000 school children whose eye sight would be examined, lenses and medication recommended and, if necessary, referral made. He added that 250 school children will be examined for refractive errors by each club in each quarter of the year. Towards youth empowerment, the new District governor disclosed that District 404 B1 has agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, (FIIRO), Oshodi to educate and empower Nigerian youths within Lagos to be entrepreneurs based on sustainable manufacturing enterprises. His words: “The advantage of the FIIRO arrangement is that the technology and the raw materials to be used have already researched been into, tested and found commercially viable even with business plans already in place. This arrangement is expected to be sustained beyond my tenure.”