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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…

The ‘Magnificent 17‘ are riding back into Dublin Town on Monday 5 June 2017 to promote the 17 Global Goals for better future for people and the planet: They will raise awareness of the important 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals, They will also raise money for anti-poverty grass-roots initiatives in Manila and Dublin. More here! The “Magnificent 17” will gather at the entrance of St. Stephen’s Green at 1 pm on Monday 5 June on ‘horse back’ before they dismount and set off come hail, rain or shine on the Vhi’s Dublin Women’s Mini-Marathon. The ‘Magnificent 17‘ are friends and volunteers…

Join All Together in Dignity Ireland volunteers in their 2017 Mini-Marathon challenge! Help us to collect sponsorship and support ATD in Manila and Dublin. For every €10 collected, €3 will fund our work in Ireland and €7 will be sent to the ATD team in the Phillipines. Our challenge: to raise €2,500 for the ATD Street Libraries in Manila and €1,000 for the activities of the ATD Youth Group in Ireland! Alongside nearly 40,000 other women in the biggest all-women’s charity event in the world, the ATD Mini-Marathon team will run on Monday 5th June! Support us now! Fundraise around you…

From 2013 to 2016, ATD International continued its commitment with vulnerable populations so that they could make their essential contribution to addressing together the challenges facing our world! Read the foreword to the triennial ATD International activity report by Mr. Cassam Uteem, President of the International Movement ATD Fourth World and download the report here (66 pages)! For many people around the world, recent years have been very harsh, brutal. Several countries, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, have experienced daily violence. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of people forcibly displaced worldwide exceeded 60…

On the 17th May, Irish participants from the Our Voices Project visited the European Institution Eurofound. The participants from the project were volunteers of ATD Ireland and members of the NWICTDP. The visit was an opportunity for the participants to visit a European agency and get an understanding of the work of an EU agency based in Ireland. We were welcomed to Eurofound by the Deputy Director, Erika Mezger. She explained to us that Eurofound is the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Here they undertake research on the living and working conditions of European Citizens across…

On Saturday the 20th May, ATD activist and volunteers will join volunteers from Afri in the Famine Walk 2017 “From Hunger and War…to a Home and a Welcome?”. 2017 is a special year for both ATD and Afri as it marks the 30th Anniversary of this famine walk and also the 30th Anniversary of the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty. For 30 years Afri has walked the famine road through the Doolough Valley in County Mayo. People from all over the country have walked this road over the last three decades, sharing their experiences with one another. This year’s…

At a time of global campaigning with the #StopPoverty Call to Action, 20 Company Members of ATD Ireland gathered on Saturday the 13th of May for the formal Annual General Meeting. The meeting took place in the very special context of the 60th anniversary of ATD’s inception and was an opportunity to  celebrate 60 years of activism & hope against poverty, a work that has its roots in the mobilisation of families  living in a slum on the outskirts of Paris, France in 1957. The AGM had a greater attendance in membership following an initiative of the Board. After the 2016…

"As this book has so many different stories I found it difficult to come up with a cover that would represent all of them at once. Instead of tackling each individual story I decided to base the cover around the stories main corresponding feature. All of the stories in this book were written by ordinary people who have a story to tell and this book enables them to do so. This is something that really inspired me and got me thinking. How each person we meet has a library inside of them, but too often we shy away from sharing it…

Join All Together in Dignity Ireland women volunteers along with nearly 40,000 other women in the biggest all-women's charity event in the world. Help us to collect sponsorship and support ATD in Manila and Dublin. For every €10 collected, €3 will fund our work in Ireland and €7 will be sent to the ATD team in the Phillipines. In July 2012, the ATD team in the Philippines launched its literacy programme Ang Galing in impoverished communities of Manila. Ang Galing are Street Libraries that supports children aged 6-14 to read and write. It builds up the self confidence of the children…