Yearly Archives: 2018

Take time to re-discover the year 2018 of ATD Ireland in 2×18=36 events! Event 1 – French "Galettes des Rois" to start the year 2018 together! Event 2 – President Michael D Higgins received "If Only You Knew". Event 3 - Launch of www.ihaveadream.ie on MLK Day (US bank holiday in January each year). Event 4 – ATD Ireland took part in an ATD European meeting about Youth Projects. Event 5 – First "Ireland, I have a Dream" workshop with "Fighting Words". Event 6 – Launch of the "Your Rights Are Written in Stone" project on UN World Day of Social…

The ATD Christmas Raffle is over! For every €5 donated from 24th November and before the 25th December 2018 supporters of ATD secured for them selves one entry ticket in the raffle! We collected €2515 and 503 tickets were given out! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GIFTS! The winners of the 10 prizes have been informed! The lucky numbers are: 1st Prize - 281 - 2nd Prize - 131 - 3rd Prize - 4 - 4th Prize - 9 - 5th Prize - 195 - 6th Prize - 398 - 7th Prize - 91 - 8th Prize - 447 - 9th…

#UDHR70 - Discover of 15 events or series of events marking the Human Rights Day 2018 in Ireland! From 23rd November to 18th December! 2018 was a very special year to mark the 70th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)! It was the year when the world also celebrated the legacy of four major Human Rights activists and key figures of the second half of the 20th century: Nelson Mandela (#Mandela100), Martin Luther King (#MLK50), Mahatma Gandhi (#Gandhi150) and Joseph Wresinski (#30). For Ireland it is also a time to remember…

ATD Ireland is seeking a motivated person to join their small and dynamic team for a 3 month long unpaid internship. The internship is designed to give an opportunity for dedicated and talented individuals to gain experience working for the protection of human rights, the prevention of discrimination and the promotion of the sustainable development goals through a wide variety of grass roots projects. This internship offers a great opportunity to gain first-hand experience of working within a local NGO while also gaining experience of how ATD International operates, with teams in 40 countries worldwide. The intern will be involved with…

Elaine PhelanI am a social care worker of 20 years experience, working with people from diverse social backgrounds and primarily in homelessness and housing based projects. Having studied a Masters in Social Policy in 2005, I co-authored an article published in the journal Critical Social Policy on the governance of homelessness in Dublin. Coming across ATD Ireland over 10 years ago, I am happy to have become one of their first employees from January 2016 to March 2017. I continue to be involved in various regular ATD activities, including the uplifting singing group. I remain constantly challenged and warmed by the…

In October 2018, over 15 events were organised around Ireland to mark the 2018 UN End Poverty Day. The 2018 observance marked the 25th anniversary of the observance of the UN Day since its recognition by the UN in December 1992. In Dublin it marked the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of the End Poverty Day Stone next to the Famine Statues. The 2018 Observance took place in a year when the world remembers the legacy of key social justice leaders, among them: Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Joseph Wresinski. 2018 is also the year of the 70th anniversary of…

17 November 2018 will mark the 1st anniversary of the adoption by the EU of the European Pillar of Social Rights. 10 December 2018 will mark the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. November or December 2018 will also be the time of consultation on the final draft of the new Irish National Plan For Social Inclusion! It's is time to Walk As One to develop a comprehensive Human Rights and Equality based approach of Social Inclusion and make the new National Plan the best ever! Add your name to the list of citizens ready…

Download the End Poverty Day Invitation posters here: Poster 1 - Poster 2

Download Voices for Dignity – the book Hard copies can be ordered for €15 (covering print and postage for Ireland) via e-mail committee@17october.ie Watch Voices for Dignity – the video “Voices for Dignity” is an event, a book and also a 12 minutes video including images of the annual community gathering at the Dublin Human Rights and Poverty Stone unveiled on the 17 October 2008 on UN End Poverty Day. The video was prepared by a volunteer of ATD Ireland, Coraline Guyot, in spring 2018 ahead of the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of the Dublin Stone.  

Download here the Working Paper presented at the Summit! Read here the message of President Michael D Higgins to the participants in the Summit! Watch the video message from David Donoghue recorded for the Summit! On Tuesday 17th April 2018, the partners of the Make Ireland Sustainable for All held the first national conference on the Sustainable Development Goals, Human Development and Inequalities. At the conference, David Donoghue, co-facilitator in 2015 of the historic UN agreement on the Agenda 2030, launched the ATD Ireland project: the "Leave No One Behind" Conversations. The Agenda 2030, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the…