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VOLUNTEERS in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus who are part of an international community service network have won an award for their environmental efforts.
The Mağusa Mesarya Lions Club of the “undistricted area of Cyprus”, part of the US-founded Lions International, have been awarded the European Lions Environmental Grant 2020, “guiding lion and specialty club coordinator” Fikret Şendil revealed earlier this week.
Mağusa Mesarya Lions Club were given the grant by the European Lions Virtual Symposium for their “highly successful” sapling planting project at a new municipal park in the village of İnönü.
The grant, worth up to 500 euros, was awarded to Mağusa Mesarya Lions Club following their participation in the symposium’s Environmental Service Project Challenge 2020.
“The Mesarya Lions are happy and proud to complete a permanent environmental service activity by contributing to the new park project of İnönü Municipality operating in Northern
Cyprus,” Mr Şendil said.
Members of the club are now preparing to renovate the thalassaemia health centre laboratory at Dr Burhan Nalbantoğlu Lefkoşa State Hospital following work they carried out there last year.
They are also planning to resume fundraising activities with the “slow easing of the national lockdown” in the TRNC, Mr Şendil added.
Mağusa Mesarya Lions Club was established in 2014. It is an “independent and individual Lions club that has been actively providing community service since its foundation”.