Tendai Madondo exits Ireland sophisticatedly Tendai was responsible for ensuring that Christian Aid/Irish Aid funding includes a strong thread of action to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS, gender inequality and violence against women. She has over ten years’ experience working on HIV/AIDS and on gender support, care, training and policy in Zimbabwe and Ireland. Tendai […]

Speakers were drawn from different volunteering organisations and a volunteer from African background.Amongst other issues raised were the involvements of Africans in strategic planning of projects or programmes that concern them, the huge cost of volunteering abroad on both the volunteers and volunteering organisations and the amount of impact Africans are making in volunteering sector […]

Women from 32 countries working in Irish sex trade Women from at least 32 countries were working in the sex trade in Ireland last year, a new report has found. Ruhama, an outreach support organisation for victims of prostitution and sex trafficking, revealed that a record 258 women accessed its services in 2012. http://www.edundalk.com/education/development.html

She went further to say that, “a key area of concern for AkiDwA has been the mental wellbeing of parents within the asylum system.  It would appear to us that the longer they are left in a prolonged state of uncertainty the most likely they are to fall into depression.  Depression among African parents, while very […]

The report, launched by the Chief Justice Mrs Justice Susan Denham, is the first from the project, which is to publish regular reports from the courts making orders under the Child Care Act. It described the fact that almost a fifth of the children involved in the cases had special needs as "one of the […]

County Louth Peace 3 Partnership and Louth Network for Peace Immigration office existed in Ireland and was called Aliens office."He gave insights on immigration statistics level in Ireland sighting different countries. He stated that in 2011, for instance that the largest number of foreign students came from UK at a figure of 8,277, followed by Poles […]

Dundalk Chamber of Commerce is planning to host a Christmas Charity lunch which will take place on Friday the 13th December at 1pm in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Dundalk.  The theme of the lunch is for Local businesses to re-connect with the community.  This will be our second year to host this event and last […]