Archive for the ‘Advocacy’

  • Jersey Day at FCJ
    Students of FCJ present a cheque to Monica Burns of GOAL A ‘Jersey Day’ was held recently in the F.C.J Bunclody, Co. Wexford, to raise vital funds for Haiti and The Irish Cancer Society. Students and teachers were asked to con tribute €3 to the event if they were willing to participate. It was a huge success  as they collected a grand total of € 2300. A...
    by Editor at May 22nd, 2010 at 05:05 am
  • St. Mary’s Secondary School Baldoyle Supporting Fair Trade
    St Mary’s secondary school is a green school seeking its fifth green flag for European and global citizenship. As part of global justice the school is well on its way to become a Fair trade school. The Fair Trade Mark Ireland is an internationally recognized consumer label that is awarded to products that meet internationally recognized standards of Fairtrade, which...
    by Editor at March 11th, 2010 at 11:03 am
  • Doctors Without Borders
    © Kadir van Lohuizen Four hundred people were waiting to see a doctor in a tiny village in the middle of Africa when one of them said that he thought he could hear a car approaching. Within seconds all of them rose up and ran into the bush, leaving the doctors and nurses standing alone, stunned. Those doctors and nurses were running a mobile clinic for the charity Médecins...
    by admin at March 4th, 2010 at 06:03 pm
  • Chernobyl: Twenty Four Years On
    Sasha Kharkv The Chernobyl Children’s Project International (CCPI) was established by Adi Roche in 1991 in the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear disaster which occurred at Chernobyl in 1986 and is one of the leading international NGO accredited charities at the forefront of development work in Belarus. In 19 years the charity has evolved its programmes to meet...
    by admin at March 1st, 2010 at 07:03 pm
  • Haiti: Rebuilding a Nation
    On the morning of the 12th of January the island nation of Haiti awoke to a new day, a Tuesday seemingly like any other. No one knew this would be the day that the future of their nation would be altered forever. Just before 5pm a size 7.0 earthquake tore through the island, absolutely devastating the buildings, roads and other infrastructure, including President René...
    by admin at February 27th, 2010 at 07:02 pm
  • Busy, Busy Baldoyle
    Fundraising on Many Levels in St. Mary’s Secondary School, Baldoyle “Do a little, it can help a lot” is a motto which has been certainly taken to heart by the girls of St. Mary’s Secondary School, Baldoyle, as they prepared for Christmas.  Each student and staff member was involved in the building of the “Crib” – a culmination of many fundraising...
    by Editor at December 15th, 2009 at 03:12 pm