Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and Ahmed El Agizy is going to cheat on his partner.

In this case however, Egypt is the “other woman,” for El Agizy plans to spend the day expressing his love for this country. El Agizy, a 33 year-old businessman, is participating in an initiative launched on Facebook yesterday called, “A gift for Egypt on Valentine,” which urges Egyptians, old and young. to give a present to the country tomorrow.

“I just love the idea,” says El Agizy. “I think it is exactly what we need now, we need to replace destruction with beauty.”

Like thousands of other Egyptians El Agizy has spent countless days camping in Tahrir Square, demanding that a regime, he believes was corrupt falls. And now that it has, he thinks it’s time to regroup and rebuild the country that he and so many others struggled to free.

“I usually don’t do anything on Valentine’s day with my partner,” laughs El Agizy. “But this is different, this is about Egypt and love is the key to our future, not just love for our country, but the love we feel for each other.”

The initiative was launched by Rasha Balbaa, a 29 year-old who like Al Agizy, felt that it was time to give back. While Balbaa, who works in social development, believes that so much could be done to help the country progress, for tomorrow, she wants to focus on beautifying the streets of Egypt.

On her group, Balbaa told the members that “with freedom comes responsibility,” and asked everyone to give Egypt a “gift,” on Valentine's Day.

While Balbaa says that she always loved Egypt, she has felt for a long time that her patriotism was buried somewhere underneath piles of frustration, disappointment and disillusionment. Now, she says, everything has changed.

“These days are amazing. There is this passion, energy and a very strong positive aura,” she says. “And because of this people who usually give 5 per cent will now give 105 per cent.. So if you want change do it now.”

Balbaa feels that there is no better day to show love for Egypt then on this international day of love.

“I’m a romantic person and Valentine’s Day has always been special to me and I think it's cool that Egypt will be my date tomorrow,” laughs Balbaa. “In the eighteen days of the revolution, we have had a Day of Rage, a Day of Defiance, so why can’t we have a Day of Love?”

For her part, Balbaa will focus on planting roses in front of her office in Mohandseen and cleaning the streets in her neighbourhood. She stresses, that she won’t accept any monetary donations, but just urges people to present the country with anything that may beautify it.

And since she launched the group yesterday, the ideas have been pouring in. Some suggested buying recycle bins and putting them on their street corners. Others suggested buying street lamps instead of the ones that were broken during the clashes, while others have offered to paint their pavements, or plant trees, or buy energy saving lamps, or renovate buildings and create emergency centres for the increasing number of accidents taking place on the roads.

While Balbaa’s Facebook group tells people to do their work between 12:00 am and 3:00 am, she hopes that the initiative will snowball and become an year-round cause for all the young Egyptians who dream of a better future.

“You know before the revolution, I personally never cared about the country,” says Balbaa. “I thought this country is going to hell but now there is justice and fairness. There is right and wrong and our voices are finally being heard and as young people we need to keeps the momentum of this revolution going, by showing our love for this great country.”