Author: ATD Ireland

  A Road to Success "I called my painting ‘a road path to success’ because the question asked what gives us hope and strength. This path gives me hope. My painting has some hard rocks at the end here: when you are looking from far, it looks like there is no road but when you keep going, the road starts becoming visible to you. I put some birds here because in my Yoruba dialect we say “Oju orun to eye fo laifara gbara“ which means “the sky is big enough for everybody to fly in.’ So thank you to the people…

ATD Ireland are working on a new project funded by IHREC; Breaking barriers: A participatory approach to defining socio- economic discrimination.  So far, this project has brought together the voices of those with lived experience of poverty and socio- economic discrimination, academics and professionals working in the community and voluntary sector.  In a participatory way, we hope to raise awareness and build a deeper understanding of socio- economic discrimination, working to create a robust definition which will help progress the #Addthe10th campaign.In the past several months we have conducted 21 interviews with both academics and professionals working in the NGO sector. …

Irish delegation from Bradog Youth Service and ATD Ireland From the 23rd to the 28th of April. An Irish delegation of 5 people, made up of staff and young people from ATD Ireland and Bradog Youth Service attended a powerful study session, that took place at the European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. This coincided with the 30th anniversary of a major youth meeting at the council of Europe. The week itself revolved around a series of working sessions in small groups as well as workshops and some fun time to explore the beautiful city and get…

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On 20th February members of the team along with community activist Lorraine travelled to Vienna, Austria to meet with other ATD Europe groups and prepare for a meeting with the EU Fundamental Rights Organisation held on the 23rd February about institutional maltreatment and socio- economic discrimination. The Fundamental rights Agency work to promote and protect rights within the EU.  They do this through actions such as collecting and analysing law and data and providing independent, evidence- based advice on rights.  After arriving to our hostel in Vienna Monday night we began preparing together on Tuesday morning.  This preparation began last September…

On 8th March some of the team travelled to Granard, Co.  Longford as part of our Leave No One Behind series 3 project. We met with a group of participants, volunteers and staff from Lus Na Greine Family resource centre.  Working with a small group of 5 we had a friendly introduction, where we told the group little about ATD Ireland and the purpose of the Leave No One Behind project.  This group had worked with ATD before so it was nice to reconnect with some of the staff.  The main purpose however was to find out a little more about them,…

Our Leave No One Behind Series 3 workshops, funded by Concern have begun. SDG 3 – Health and Wellbeing is at the core of this series, as SDG 3 and SDG 1 No Poverty emerged as two of the goals most significant to the participants of Leave No One Behind Series 2 as expressed in the report which ATD published in 2022. In particular, we uncovered the connection between these two goals. In light of this, Leave No One Behind Series 3 was therefore designed to focus on highlighting positive actions taking place around the country which aim to improve the…

For the past year ATD Ireland as part of our Leave No One Behind: Series 3 programme (funded by Concern), have been hosting a Choose-Day Tuesday event each week. The ATD staff have been delighted to see some new faces, and to welcome back familiar ones each week to share our space and to learn from each other from our variety of skills/interests. The idea behind this was to give participants the autonomy to choose what different activity, workshop or outing they would like to organize and take part in, every Tuesday. “You’ll see that a lot of people and families…

On Wednesday 22nd of February, ATD Ireland was kindly invited by Sinn Féin’s TD Chris Andrews and Independent TD Violet-Anne Wynne to attend the debate about the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021 — Second Stage in Private Members’ Business. This debate will tackle what the #Addthe10th alliance have been striving for. It is necessary for people with lived experiences of poverty to have protection in the Irish Equality legalisation. Prior to the debate, we were given a tour around Leinster House and learned about the efforts to include more women in the interior design, particularly the art work which was previously…

Walking, Thinking and Talking: An exploration of the lived experiences and hidden geographies of poverty as a participatory arts methodology On Friday October 6th Dr Joe Whelan from the Department of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College Dublin launched new research, website and animation 'Walking, Thinking and Talking: An exploration of the lived experiences and hidden geographies of poverty as a participatory arts methodology'.  The launch was held at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, with panel of Joe Whelan and ATD community activists Andrew, Paul, Jimmy and Christina who were among the participants in the research.  The launch…