Community Service is an important aspect of a young person’s social personal and social development. It helps children to learn about the less fortunate and how they can help improve the plight of others. Every year our students are encouraged to think of ways to help others whether this be individuals or organizations. During Community Service Display Week classes put up displays to show the other students about how they have helped during the year.
Last year students raised funds for many different charities and organizations e.g. local orphanages, for The Egyptian Food Bank, for Animal Care in Egypt and for Operation Smile.  We also like to support The Tulips Foundation, which is a charity set up by some of our parents and students. The students get to research and choose which charities or foundations they would like to help and they organise various fund raising events, with some help from teachers and parents. Students really enjoy this aspect of their learning. We are always very proud to see how interested and enthusiastic they are to put their skills into action to help others.

Community Service for Older Students

For the Senior School, students are highly involved with community services. They are constantly looking for new creative ways to help the less fortunate. The activites they engage in vary from regular bake sales in break times to whole senior school sponsored runs. Below are examples of activities and institutions Alssonians support:

Ahbab El Rahman Orphanage

As an ongoing activity, our students collect used clothes, food items and toys for the orphans. As a school, we have supported this orphanage for a long time, we have managed to renovate their kitchen and construct an additional floor to accomodate more orphans. Also, in the end of 2011, primary elemetary students have managed to raise enough funds to purchase a large fridge, cooker and a heavy duty washing machine for the orphanage.
We pay regular visits to the orphanage to monitor the progress made. We take the students for visits to the orphanage to see how the place has benefited a lot from their donations, and how even the simplest things made a difference. Our students demonstrate outstanding behavior, compassion and care towards the orphans.

Dahshour Centre

El Alsson School students also support a centre for disabled, ill poor residents as well as disabled orphans in Dahshour. This centre supports people who are suffering extremely poor living conditions. The students evaluate cases provided by the centre and make a collective decision on the cases they want to support, where they raise funds specifically for the case and support it all the way until they see the result achieved. In the end of 2011, primary elementary students have managed to raise enough funds to purchase rehabilitation equipment for the disabled cases of the centre.

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Thanks to Mrs. Manal Olama, one of El Alsson parents who gave a presentation to Senior Students about the Egyptian Food Bank which added the EFB to the places alssonians support. For more info: http://egyptianfoodbank.com