Copyright and credits

The photographs of Leos, projects and conferences are licensed to Leo Multiple District 306 for use on this site. They are not released for reuse elsewhere. Conference and event photography by M. Dewendra, Capture You Ceylon. The historical photographs on the history pages are not MD 306's and are listed separately at the foot of this page.

The island and the areas drawn on every district map are geoBoundaries' administrative sets for Sri Lanka, derived from OpenStreetMap and used under the Open Database License 1.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl

The Leo programme is a programme of Lions Clubs International. The Lions name, the Lions emblem and the Leo emblem belong to that organization, and this site uses them as one of its Leo multiple districts rather than on its own account. lionsclubs.org

The Leos of Sri Lanka & Maldives lock-up and the district crests are official artwork supplied by Leo Multiple District 306. They are governed by the MD 306 Brand Guidelines: use them only in the supplied form, and only with the district's permission.

Body and interface text is set in Poppins, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. openfontlicense.org

The history pages carry photographs that belong to other people. Every one of them is either in the public domain or published under a Creative Commons licence that permits reuse with attribution, and each is listed below with its holder, its licence and where the file came from. None of them shows a Lions or a Leo project, and none of them is MD 306's to relicense.

• State Street, Chicago, photographed in 1917 or 1918: streetcars, delivery wagons and a column of sailors outside the department stores.

  U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Rotated upright, cropped out of its catalogue card and resized. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons

• Windsor, Ontario, from the air in 1920: the river, the rail yards and the downtown blocks, in the year the town chartered the first Lions club outside the United States.

  Canadian Postcard Company, from the British Library's collections. Resized and re-encoded for the web. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons

• Helen Keller around 1920, five years before she came to Cedar Point. Photographed for the Los Angeles Times.

  Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library; restoration by the Wikimedia contributor Rhododendrites. Resized and re-encoded for the web. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons

• Members of the Indian delegation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, July 1945: the conference Lions were invited to.

  United Nations Photo (photographer credited as Yould). Re-encoded for the web at its original size. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons

• Abington Senior High School, Pennsylvania, photographed in 2021. The building has changed; the first Leo club in the world was formed by students here in 1957.

  The Wikimedia contributor Victor Scimitar. Resized and re-encoded for the web. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Wikimedia Commons

• An eye examination at the Kitale eye clinic in Kenya, 2021. Not a Lions or a Leo project: it is a photograph of the work SightFirst exists to pay for.

  The Wikimedia contributor Mwangiw. Converted from PNG to JPEG, resized and re-encoded for the web. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Wikimedia Commons

• A Little League game in Hartford Park, Columbus, Ohio, around 1955: the batter mid-swing, the catcher behind him, and families watching from under the trees.

  Columbus Metropolitan Library, contributed through the Digital Public Library of America; photographed by A. V. Shirk. Cropped to a letterbox band, resized and re-encoded for the web. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons

• The playing field at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, at sunset in 2019: cut grass, the goalposts at the far end, and the hills behind them.

  The Wikimedia contributor Ruwan 14. Resized and re-encoded for the web. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Wikimedia Commons

• Galle Face Green, Colombo, on a Sunday evening in 2013: kites over the promenade, and the city behind it.

  The Wikimedia contributor Saqib Qayyum. Resized and re-encoded for the web. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Wikimedia Commons