Aie Serve

Aie Serve, a youth-based organization, was founded on February 23rd, 2007 with the vision of spreading love, respect and acceptance.

The word “Aie” is a Japanese word pronounced as “I” and means “Love”, so the name of NGO is Love to Serve or I Serve…others.

The idea came due to the aftermath of July War on Lebanon and the sharp polarization of the Lebanese youth. A group of friends started brainstorming ways of tackling this issue and agreed that the 3 basic values that are missing in Lebanon are Respect, Acceptance and Love. Loving others for who they are, and not which political background or sect they are from, respecting others’ point of views and beliefs no matter what, and accepting differences and considering them the seeds of diversity.

Afterwards, thee group started gathering more ideas and people and tried to organize themselves little at a time while focusing on serving their surrounding and society at large.

Aie Serve evolved from a group of friends, to a group of community service minded people, to a team and an organization.

Aie Serve promotes the values of respect, acceptance and love to achieve an improved future for human kind.

Goals

Promote Aie Serve’s philosophy and professional volunteerism among youth.
Empower the youth with the needed soft skills and tools to develop the community.
Leverage Aie Serve’s experience to support other organizations in developing their capacities.

Our Programs
Aie Clubs

A network of Aie Serve Clubs in universities, schools and local communities. The clubs are a projection of Aie Serve’s vision, mission, philosophy, and way of work. Aie Serve empowers the youth in those clubs to become positive agents of change for the improvement of their communities. The clubs’ cabinets and active members are trained by Aie Serve and other professional trainers to give them the needed tools and enhance their skills to practice professional voluntarism. The network of clubs allows its members to share experiences, lessons learned & ideas.

Aie Consult

A consultancy and training program. On one side, it provides consultancy for youth lead NGOs and on the other, it provides soft skills training for youth. The consultancy aims to empower the NGOs at all organizational, managerial, legal, and financial levels. It focuses on ongoing support, customized solutions and workshops to ensure the beneficiary NGOs excel at their work. Whereas the soft skills training focus on a wide range of topics that empowers youth to become professional volunteers with strong leadership skills.

Aie Power

A program that acts as a projects incubator to motivate youth to develop their ideas, that are based on Aie Serve’s vision, mission and goals, into viable projects. It empowers those youth by allowing them to work on their initiatives and developing their capacities and skills. It includes a series of project management training, coaching sessions and funding for those projects to succeed.