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 Love Tripoli began as an online Facebook community of youth who wanted to change Tripoli’s image as an extremist-driven and violent city. (May 2007) Since the year 2009, the group became known to regularly host weekend photo-shooting excursions called “Shoot as you walk”, where members meet to take pictures of the city’s hidden treasures and then post them online, which have encouraged more people to join. WLT is the pioneer of the worldwide “We Love” movement created in the spirit of WLT’s mission “We volunteer for our city”. We Love Tripoli page on Facebook (54,000 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 as of February 2015).