Charities

The Metrolina Phoenician Club sponsors several charities each year. Our contributions to the charities take place towards the end of each calendar year. The proceeds of our different events and your donations for the year 2008, enabled us to help the following charities:

• Agape
• Lebanese Society - Deaf and Blind
• Crèche Saint Vincent
• Children's Cancer Society of Lebanon
• The Shelter for Battered Women, Charlotte

Amount donated for 2008: $3,000


The Lebanese government has stopped supporting this Home because the children who dwell and are treated here are not of Lebanese parents, therefore, the Home is looking for any donation and help they can get.


Amount donated for 2008: $4,000


Shown in this picture, Mr. Tony Bikhazi handing over the donation check on behalf of the Metrolina Phoenician Club, to Mrs Wadad Lahoud the principle of the School for the Deaf & Blind.
Mrs. Wadad Lahoud is a great trooper who fights hard for the children and young people they have in the school and needs every penny she can get to continue their higher education. Braille laptops would be the greatest gift they could ask for in 2009.
The school has approximately 160 students of which some are live in and some are day students.


Amount donated for 2008: $3,000


Crèche St Vincent De Paul is headed by Soeur Laurice Obeid and is helped by a group of nuns. They were very appreciative of the Metrolina Phoenician Club donation, and wish the Club and all its members a happy and healthy 2009.
The Club received a thank you note from Crèche St. Vincent De Paul..


Amount donated for 2008: $3,000


The Children's Cancer Center Lebanon is an affiliate of St Jude in Memphis.
Mr. Tony Bikhazi, on behalf of the Metrolina Phoenician Club handed over the donation check, and later met with Dr. Miguel Abboud, head of the center, who thanked the Club and our members for their thoughtfulness.
The picture on the right, shows from right to left, Mr. Tony Bikhazi, Dr. Samar Muwakkit Balaa, head nurse Randa Shaheen, Mr. Karim Zein who is a young patient at the center, and Mrs. Lak Bikhazi.


Amount donated for 2008: $2,000

The Shelter for Battered Women, a division of United Family Service, offers counseling, support and a safe haven for women and their children who are in danger of abuse form the woman's intimate partner. The Shelter provides women and children with information and resources to assist them in establishing a violence-free home.
The Club received a thank you note from the Shelter for Battered Women.