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 almost 50 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-led volunteering, humanitarian responses, and active citizenship. All of Comhlámh’s work is underpinned by a commitment to Global Citizenship Education (GCE), which deepens understanding of the structural causes of inequality and 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
- 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 and groups working to achieve local and global justice
Our Members
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Solidarity in Action
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- A solidarity-based movement that draws on our history to create new responses to the unprecedented challenges the world is facing.
- The skills, dispositions, and stamina to stay involved in generating opportunities for change at a time of deep uncertainty and challenges.
Comhlámh believes that by providing the space for people to come together to collaborate, learn and share, ideas and possibilities for achieving common goals will emerge
How We See the World
Comhlámh aims to create spaces within which different ways of being and doing can be nurtured, and from which new possibilities for action might emerge. We aim to provide the spaces for transformative thinking, practice, and action, and believe this is key to establishing the conditions for innovation and change.
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