Leo Club of Alexandria Apollo
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| Motto | "We Serve" |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1997 |
| Type | Youth Secular service club |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, Egypt |
Membership | 102 |
Parent organization | Lions Clubs International |
Leo Club of Alexandria Apollo is a nonprofit organization founded in 1997. It is affiliated with Lions Clubs International and Leo clubs in Egypt, with the spirit of "We Serve" and practice of "LEO:"
L: Leadership
E: Experience
O: Opportunity
The club was founded with the efforts and contribution of young men and ladies with a vision to develop youth potentials, so that they can take an active interest in the civil, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
Since 1997, LEO club of Alexandria has hosted over 500 active members, who worked together on a daily basis to create ideas, projects, and a better chance for the poor families, orphans, and those in need in Alexandria and its surrounding cities.
The club structure consists of young men and ladies ranging from 18 to 28 years old, who are students of engineering, pharmacy, commerce, AAST, medicine, and fine arts, who together have executed hundreds of successful community service projects.
Notable Projects[edit]
Ana Mawhub[edit]
Project Idea
As we met, during our projects, blind kids with wonderful voices, orphans with great acting skills, disabled kids with amazing musical talents and poor kids with stunning dancing skills, we decided to arrange an event that will highlight those talents and affect those kids.
We started working on “Ana Mawhub” aiming to bring those talents altogether under one roof, providing them with the audience to listen, watch and scout those undiscovered talents and most importantly make those kids enjoy a wonderful experience.
Project objective
Create a wonderful night for the poor, blinds, orphans, and disabled kids with talents to enjoy.
Provide them with a cheering audience, making it possible for these talents to prosper and develop with the addition of giving the kids a night to remember.
Moreover, we aim to offer the audience with a remarkable night, and entertain them with these wonderful talents.
All the raised funds will be directed towards organizing the event itself and covering all the necessary expenses. Any excess funds will be used to renovate orphanages and provide them with their essential needs hence; we are depending on your generous contributions that will help us accomplish our mission.
Project history
“Ana Mawhub” was held for the first time in 2010 and took place in Pharos University hall and the audience reached 800. It included discovering the talents of the kids of 9 orphanages and homes. It took us three months of continuous efforts writing the scripts, training the kids for the show and even organizing the whole event. The event was marketed through various aspects; 13000 flyers, 800 posters, booths in sporting and smouha clubs, Pharos University and different faculties of Alexandria University. Furthermore, the event was covered by different types of media including newspapers (Alahram, Alakhbar, Almasry Alyoum), magazines (Teen Stuff, UGO, Alshabab magazine), TV channels (Elhorra TV, Egyptian television) and Internet coverage (Alyoum Alsabea). In addition to, a Facebook campaign that included a lot of remarkable videos, fan pages and articles. Many celebrities such as Muhammed Nagy (Gedo), West El-balad band and Karim Kojac supported the event.
In 2011 “Ana Mawhub” was held on the 4th of June at the great hall (conference center) of Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the audience reached 1600. 9 orphanages and 250 kids participated in the event. The event was marketed through various aspects: Cycling event on the Cournich Road, car wash in different clubs, booths in different colleges, malls and clubs, internet by Facebook, videos and different celebrities supporting the cause, media coverage (bewspapers, magazines, television, and radio channels). Many celebrities attended the event such as Swasan Badr, Dorra, Abdul Fattah El-Greiny, and Sherif Azmy.
Ramadan to Go[edit]
Project Idea
The idea behind the project goes 23 years back when Dr. Karim Salah (the founder of Ramadan to Go project) was only 8 years old and his mum was very sick, when she recovered she cooked rice and meat and distributed these meals to traffic policemen.
This was kept in Dr. Karim’s mind till we had a small meeting just few weeks before Ramadan in Sixties dinner, and we came out with the idea of Ramadan to Go.
The project started 11 years ago, exactly in year 2000, Dr. Ahmed El Anguibawi was the LEO president at that time, where the LEO situation was not that favorable, as we went down to 6 active members in the club. We were looking for an event that rescues our club from falling down and closing. And here came Ramadan to Go the project that brought LEO Alexandria back to Life and increased our club members, our publicity and creditability.
Project objective
Provide everyday meals and charity bags with the necessary amount of food supplies and components for the whole month for poor families inside and outside Alexandria.
We manage to cover most of the outskirts of Alexandria (El-Ras El-Soda, El-Mamoura El-Balad, Khorshid, Mezra, El-Zawayda, Ezbet Sekina, Ezbet El-Neswan, Abees, Masakn El-Oboor), areas into the heart of Alexandria (Moharam Beek, Bakous, El-Asafra, Sidi Beshr), and also we reached out side Alexandria (Kafr El-Dawar, Rashid, Suez, Cairo, Edfina, Portsaid)
Project history
In its first year in 2000 we manage to make 800 meals and they were all distributed in Alexandria, the meal coasted an average of 7L.E, This number increased rapidly through years till it reached 18000 meal in 2003, the year which witnessed the introduction of the Idea of charity bags (Keyas el Khier) for the first time to our project as we made 150 bag.
In 2006, we managed to reach a target of 17000 meals and 4400 bags, this year witnessed the participation of Unilever and Rashid Foundation in our event with a sum of 170,000 LE.
In 2009, we exceeded targets by achieving 24000 meals and 6400 bags.
In 2011, despite all the political circumstances that surrounded us after the 25th of January revolution we managed to deliver 28000 meals and 6500 bags.
Other remarkable projects:[edit]
Ramadan to go: Offering Poor families, widows and orphans over 7000 charity bags, and 25,000 hot meals during Ramadan.
BSLA: Basketball Summer League in Alexandria, taking place in Sporting club since 1999, The project is one of the most successful sports tournaments in Egypt. BSLA funds are dedicated to medical treatment objectives.
2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup and 2006 Africa Cup of Nations: Worked closely with the Egyptian Football Association and the FIFA to oversee and organize these international football tournaments in Alexandria.
Medical campaigns: Clinics in rural areas to provide free medicine and treatment to the underprivileged.
Job fairs: Organized several successful job fairs in Alexandria with more than 5000 unemployed being hired.
Breast cancer campaigns: Worked with a governmental foundation to create awareness of the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer for Egyptian females.
Keswet el Sheta managed to provide over 20,000 pieces of clothes and 6000 blankets for those in need.
Ana Habny balady Gathered more than 1500 person in Alexandria to clean, paint and distribute flyers.
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