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ATD Ireland will be at the Irish Aid Volunteering Fair 2017! Come and discuss ways to volunteer long-term in one of the 100 projects run by ATD local communities across 40 countries around the world! To start the journey: Join our Local Volunteers Network: help us in many ways from the running of our projects: fundraising, translating English<>French to maintenance in the office, special events, administration, family support and a whole lot more. Whether you like to work alone or in a group, in an office or outdoors, on the front line or in a support role, we can always use…

Every year ATD Ireland supports the "4 tests" call on the Government by the Community Platform. As ATD  we want to underline one request of the "4th test"expecting from the Budget 2018 to "Set aside funding for pilot projects with the aim of developing long-term participatory processes in which people with experience of poverty and their organisations could contribute to the assessment and monitoring of policy". Download here the Community Platform Four Tests for Budget 2018

To mark the 2nd Anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (25 September 2015 - see here), and to celebrate the 60 years of the first community initiative in 1957 that was the starting point of the development of the International ATD Fourth World Movement. . ATD Ireland invites you to a fun and sport outdoor event in Mountjoy Square Park (Dublin 1) on Sunday 24th September 2017 (from 1pm to 5pm).It will be a day to celebrate community and human rights values which are at the origin of the 17 Universal Global Goals. You will be…

ATD Ireland and the Irish 17 October Committee are creating a new volunteer team to support the preparation and organisation of the events which will take place in Ireland and especially in Dublin on the 16th and 17th October to mark the 30th anniversary of the UN End Poverty day and the finale of the 2017 #StopPoverty Campaign (see www.poverty-stop.org). Hands and Hearts Welcome! Contact: volunteering@atdireland.ie Visit also: http://volunteering.force.com A first team meeting will be organised on 12 September 2017 - More here!

From 10 to 14th August, a youth delegation prepared by NYP2, the Cork Life Centre and ATD Ireland was on the move. The delegation travelled to Wijhe in the Netherlands to take part in the European Youth Rise Up Against Poverty gathering. The experience was educational and inspirational for all involved. Youth groups from eight European countries were represented at the gathering. Three members of our delegation travelled to Wijhe four days early to assist in the preparation week where their duties ranged from cooking and cleaning to pitching military tents. We were very proud of Gavin Uzel who was handed…

Special #ActionAgainstPoverty Update! Discover the pictures from the Mandela Day happening on 18 July 2017 in Dublin near the Famine Statues! In the year of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Wresinski, initiator of the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and at the occasion of UN Mandela Day 2017 (18th July) focusing on needed action against poverty, ATD Ireland invites you to gather at the Human Rights and Poverty Stone (near the Famine Statues - Custom House Quay - Dublin 1) at 1pm and later at 5pm to  join a special "Living the legacies" workshop to discuss…

The 30st of June was the end date of the 2016-2017 "Our Voices" project co-funded by the  EU Programme "Europe for Citizens". On this page you will find links to various documents reporting events and final results of the project. We also included the 3 videos prepared by ATD Ireland during the project. In Ireland, we plan to create a follow-up project to build on the "Our Voices" learnings. With the Community Platform will aim to influence the implementation of the "SlainteCare" health system reform, to make sure it delivers for all citizens and especially those facing hardships because of poverty…

Tuesday, June 26th 2017, the Community Platform and All Together in Dignity Movement (ATD) Ireland hosted a seminar on the “Health as a Human Right”, held at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in Dublin. The aim of the seminar was to discuss the Community Platform’s “Six principles for an inclusive health policy” and the “Our Voices” project organized by ATD Ireland to give voice to the people most underserved by the current healthcare system in Ireland. It was attended by over 80 people from a wide of variety of organizations working to make health care more accessible, equitable, and…

Latest updates:  On 14th July 2017, ATD Ireland wrote to An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with the request to put in place a structure that will ensure that the Taoiseach's Office and Department take overall responsibility for ensuring that Ireland delivers in full on its promises regarding the UN Sustainable Development Goals. (Full letter here) On 19th July 2017, Ministers and high representatives of States, including Minister Andrew Doyle TD, Irish Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture, meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, adopted the 'Ministerial declaration of the 2017 high-level political forum on sustainable development, convened under…

On 15th of June 2017, the Irish "Our Voices" delegates, prepared by ATD Ireland, met with delegates from Spain and Poland to launch the "Our Voices" report at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The launch took place during the meeting of the Intergroup "fighting against poverty in defence of human rights". The meeting was opened by Mairead McGuinness, first Vice-President of the European Parliament. It included a presentation of "Object Poverty" created by the SAOL project in Dublin and of the learnings of the "Europe for Citizens" project "Our Voices". The video below was presented to the audience of MEPs and…