We Love Tripoli

We Love Tripoli (WLT) is a Lebanese youth-led organization promoting cultural, social & environmental activism in Tripoli, Lebanon with public notice 999/ad since June 19th 2009. “We trigger the collective passion to serve our community through advocacy projects, volunteer activities and social media.” We Love Tripoli page on Facebook (48,500 likes) became the largest online community for Tripoli, Lebanon and the largest non-political Lebanese community organization Facebook page (in terms of the number of likes till september 2014). The organization is structured as follows: 1.      Board of Directors: 7 members elected by the General Assembly on a yearly basis. Decisions are made by the MAJORITY of the Board of Directors. The Board members elect among themselves the following 7 positions: 1.1.    President 1.2.    Vice President 1.3.    Executive Director 1.4.    General Secretary 1.5.    Finance Officer 1.6.    Communications and PR Officer 1.7     Logistic Officer 2.      General Assembly: All We Love Tripoli members who submit their membership fees with accepted applications. The Board of Directors is required to accept all applicants regardless of their race, religion, and political attitude. The General Assembly elects 7 members of the Board of Directors. A General Assembly 3.      Committees: The Board of Directors authorizes the initiation of a committee further to a request from 2 or more members of the Assembly, and can delegate specific authorities to those committees. A Committee member is either a member of the Assembly or a volunteer. 4.      Volunteers: They are registered in the Volunteer Database, they can become members of committees but they can’t vote nor run – as a candidate – in the Board election. Funding Till September 2014, we had grants from fundraising events and the membership fees, and in 2013 we had a grant from Forum ZED a german Organization, The project was called "LabbaynanNida" its was an initiative developed by We Love Tripoli that aims at honoring “Salam w Takwa” volunteers - who contributed in the restoration works after Tripoli mosques explosions in August 2013 - and letting their voice be heard through the sincere words of an amateur operetta, contributing in the creation of a Public Opinion that adopts a moderate, positive and non violent attitude. Impact WLT is the pioneer of the worldwide “We Love” movement created in the spirit of We Love Tripoli’s mission “We volunteer for our city”.