‘With ALBAIK You are the House Hero’ summer program celebrates its 10th anniversary with over 550 students taking part. Jeddah and Makkah students take on public painting job to remove graffiti from walls

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of With ALBAIK You are the House Hero, students had the opportunity to implement what they have learned for the benefit of the community and neighborhoods.  The lessons learned over four weeks translated into action with the House Hero participants in Jeddah and Makkah taking part in a painting clean-up initiative.

Following an assessment of the graffiti scrawled on walls around the neighborhoods, the With ALBAIK You are the House Hero students took matters in their own hands by working with their instructors to repaint the walls as they had been taught in the painting session of the summer program.

During the third week of the summer program more than 50 of the House Hero summer program students spent a day painting over the graffiti on walls in Jeddah and Makkah under the direction of the Jeddah Municipality and in cooperation with the program training entity the 1st Vocational and Training Institute in Jeddah and the Technical College in Makkah. 

Setting a schedule for the painting program, the students and their training instructors boarded their buses and headed to the designated locations as approved with the Municipalities to begin painting the walls.  Mixing the paint, cleaning areas of debris and beginning to cover the graffiti, the participants successfully implemented their plan to help clean up the area and be not only heroes of their homes but of their neighborhoods and communities as well. 

Commenting on their initiative Eng. Rami Abu Ghazaleh CEO of ALBAIK Food Systems said: “We are not just celebrating 10 years of the House Hero program, we are celebrating the responsibility and actions of our youth who are the instigators of this program.  To have students take it upon themselves to implement a painting activity not for their own purpose but for the benefit of the community is to be lauded by all.  The With ALBAIK You are the House Hero summer program is an initiative that we are very proud of and we are also proud of our partnership with the First Training and Vocational Institute in Jeddah, the Technical College in Makkah, Civil Defense, Red Crescent, Prince Majid bin Abdulaziz Society for Development and Social Services and the Quranic Memorization Organization for their support of this initiative. 

Aimed at encouraging youth to become integral components within society and involving their engagement in innovative and interactive programs, the With ALBAIK You are the House Hero program is one of ALBAIK's several corporate social responsibility programs.

Launched in 2002, the With ALBAIK You are the House Hero summer training program has witnessed the participation of over 5500 male and female students to date.  Directed at boys 12–18 years of age and girls 8–16 years of age, the With ALBAIK You Are the House Hero summer program, now in its tenth consecutive year, supports social development in the Kingdom by giving youth the opportunity to learn how to perform simple household tasks as well as to discover and develop their talents in order to put them on the path to a bright and fulfilling future.