About Comhlámh

Established in 1975, Comhlámh is the Irish Association of International Development Workers and Volunteers. As a membership organization, we build and mobilise community around global justice issues. Comhlámh nurtures and supports work for change, locally and globally, and advocates for a world beyond injustice.

Comhlámh has over 45 years’ experience of solidarity-based engagement that addresses the most pressing issues of our time. We support people and organisations to mobilise for global justice, including through values-based volunteering, humanitarian responses, and active citizenship. All Comhlámh’s work is underpinned by a commitment to Global Citizenship Education (GCE), which deepens understanding of the structural causes of inequality, unsustainability, as well as the connections between local and global challenges. Overall, Comhlámh provides a unique and vital space to work in solidarity with others towards a shared goal of a world beyond injustice.

Our Community

Our community is made up of:

  • Comhlámh members, member groups and the people and organisations they connect with.
  • Volunteer Sending Agencies (VSAs) and organisations that support Comhlámh’s Code of Good Practice for VSAs
  • People who volunteer, work, or act in solidarity with communities in the Global South
  • Migrant solidarity responders and humanitarian responders
  • Irish national volunteering sector (Volunteer Centres and Volunteer Ireland)
  • Networks, educators, institutions, relevant sectors, and groups working to achieve local and global justice

Our Members

Comhlámh members are typically volunteers, returned development workers, and activists who believe that the causes of global inequality, poverty and who believe that different ways of being and doing are needed to address the unprecedented global challenges facing our interconnected world.
Members of Comhlámh pay an annual membership fee because they believe in, actively engage, deliver, and support the work of Comhlámh.

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Solidarity in Action

Our community is made up of:

  • Comhlámh members, member groups and the people and organisations they connect with.
  • Volunteer Sending Agencies (VSAs) and organisations that support Comhlámh’s Code of Good Practice for VSAs
  • People who volunteer, work, or act in solidarity with communities in the Global South
  • Migrant solidarity responders and humanitarian responders
  • Irish national volunteering sector (Volunteer Centres and Volunteer Ireland)
  • Networks, educators, institutions, relevant sectors, and groups working to achieve local and global justice

Want to Dig Deeper?

Become a member

Join the growing Comhlámh community of like-minded people interested in activism.

Join our groups

Join us as a Member and get involved in one of our groups active on global and social justice issues.

Watch #FIRSTWEDS

Join our First Wednesdays conversations, explore the linkages between local and global justice issues.