Author: ATD Ireland

From the 3rd until the 6th of April last, a large delegation of over 20 staff, volunteers and friends of ATD Ireland left together to meet and explore the ATD UK team and offices. The majority of the time was spent not only getting to know the UK delegation and learning about  who they are and what they do – but also becoming closer and discovering more about those we travelled over with. We stayed in the very comfortable and homely surrounding of Frimhurst – a very large building in a green and picturesque setting in the countryside of Surrey, dedicated…

On Bank Holiday Monday June 3rd 2019, join our ATD evening party open to all to mark the European Sustainable Development Week 2019 and to come together as Fabienne and Pierre Klein move from Dublin to Paris where they will continue their work with ATD Europe,and the ATD Volunteer Corps. The evening will include presentation on SDGs activities, Sing Along Session, games and more fun! When: Monday 3rd June 2019 from 5pm to 8pm Where: Gym Hall of the Ozanam House, 53 Mountjoy Square West, Dublin 1, D01 T6W6 The focus of this late afternoon event will be a celebration of…

The Our World Irish Aid Awards seek to enable pupils to learn about the lives of children and their families in developing countries and how Ireland, through Irish Aid, and 192 other countries in the United Nations are working together to create a safer and fairer world, and a better future for all the world’s children. This year’s Awards theme, Leave No One Behind, is an opportunity to discover a children's movement focused on the "Leave No One Behind" challenge: Tapori The closing date for entries for this year’s Our World Irish Aid Awards is Friday April 12th 2019, so there…

Happy International Women’s Day 2019! As we still fight for gender equality, does the ATD 44 years old challenging 1975 call on the all feminist movements appeal to you today, in 2019? Tell us what has changed, what need to change and what in this 1975 text is still inspiring today? “The fundamental question facing women today is to know whether they accept equal opportunity among themselves. Until now the world has never accepted an equality which gives priority to the most disadvantaged… This would be a radical turning point in the history of the world.” Joseph Wresinski, All Together in…

On March 15th 2019, join and support the Global Climate Justice Strike For Future! On March 15, along with NGOs in 40 countries on all continents, we will support the call to the youth and all citizens of the world to join the Global Strike For Future! Let's show the world that the Climate Crisis is a Crisis! Let's show the world that the demand for Justice is an Urgency! Do link climate action and social justice! Act on climate never without, or against, people living in poverty! In a context of successive international meetings about the new Sustainable Development Goals…

For the past 20 years, Martin Byrne, volunteer & member of the Board of ATD Ireland has been collecting North Wall stories and publishing them once a year. These stories are coming from a range of people and the book encourages people to dig deep and write down those stories that have been hidden away for so long. This year again, Martin's North Wall stories help us with fresh eyes to see our unfair world differently. By reading these stories we are liable to be born anew or jolted or touched or changed. They herald a world of shared human condition,…

From January 2019 to September 2019 ATD will carry out a project exploring the issue of socio-economic discrimination in Irish public services and in every day life. A person’s socio-economic status is not currently recognised as a ground upon which a person might be discriminated against, under Irish equality legislation. Share your story with us today! The first step of the project is to collect anonymous real life stories to showcase how this type of discrimination or unequal treatment is unfortunately too common and needs to be recognised within legislation. The stories collected will be published into a report that will…

  "We really need to be integrated in the world, to love the world. We cannot introduce the people marginalised because of extreme poverty into today’s or tomorrow’s world if we are not ourselves part of it. It is not that we are blind to human failings, but we must constantly remind ourselves and each other that every human being deserves to be trusted, as long as we do not have proof to the contrary. We must welcome political discussions and the sharing of ideas, and we must love people who defend what they believe in. Whilst not being sidetracked, we…

For the two past months, All Together in Dignity prepared a delegation of 7 participants to the 15th ‘European ATD People's University’ which took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday the 6th of February 2019. The group from ATD consisted of 7 volunteers involved in the  ATD’s Unity in the Community Youth Group (UCYG). The UCYG was created in the summer of 2017 after an ATD European Youth Exchange in the Netherlands. They are a group of young adults (aged between 18 - 25) who are social activists and leaders in their communities. In 2018 the members of…

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…