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‘Meet – Play – Move: One woman’s take on the UCDVO/Comhlamh Skills in Development Education course’
Credit :Zoe Liston, UCDVO/Comhlamh courses 2019 Finding just and compassionate solutions: Comhlámh’s Skills in Development Education course 2019 As a lifelong local community volunteer who, on a regular basis, facilitates groups as part of the ‘day’ job, I was...
Ask The Candidates! #EUelections2019
The upcoming European and Local elections on Friday, May 24th are an important one. People will be canvassing for your votes, and so we have pulled together some key questions around particular themes that our members have been working on. These cover areas of...
Trade Unionism & Working for Development #FirstWeds
To mark Mayday 2019, this month #FirstWeds will explore some of the themes and issues of trade unionism and working in the local and global community and development sectors. From a global perspective, we can clearly see those trade unionists, and others involved in...
The Comhlámh Coming Home Weekend – ‘Sustaining Our Work’
'Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.' Audre Lorde Comhlámh is delighted to announce that our next Coming Home Weekend will take place in Django Hostel in Cloughjordan eco-village on Saturday 22...
Cultivate’s new Elements of Change Festival
Unveiling Cultivate's new Elements of Change Festival, June 29th: "Celebrating what a 'sustainable community' is and exploring what actually sustains community. Many movements are calling for change - let's come together to rethink what these diverse elements of...
Dr Ciara Conlon: Access to Medicines Podcast
Last weekend, Ciara Conlon from Access to Medicines appeared on The Echo Chamber Podcast ahead of the Access to Medicines conference this month. You can listen in full below. Irish patients have access to fewer new medicines than those in other EU countries and have...
Volunteering and the SDGs
Mark Cumming, the Head of Comhlámh reflects on deliberations at our event looking at Volunteering and the SDGs. We were delighted to host UNV in Dublin on 12th March last. There was an excellent line up in the room with representatives from the United Nations...
Conversations with volunteers: Eilís McDonald
Continuing our series of interviews with development workers and volunteers, retired teacher and long term volunteer Eilís McDonald writes for us below reflecting on her many years volunteering experiences in Malawi, Uganda and Kenya. Eilísh speaking at the Irish Aid...
A Twitter thread on African ‘tragedies’
In a powerful thread in Twitter, writer Zoé Samudzi set out some thoughts about how western media reports invariably omits or renders invisible African responses of solidarity in crisis, and are infused with a sense of inevitability, rather than examining real causes...
Volunteer with Comhlámh at concerts and support our member groups
It’s that time of year again and Comhlámh are delighted to announce our call-out for concert volunteers for Summer 2019. As a festival volunteer, you will be helping raise funds exclusively for the use of Comhlámh member groups. Volunteering with us means helping...
No to any new TTIP: Contact your MEP’s
TTIP Trojan demo in Brussels 2014 The Comhlámh Trade Justice group sent the following letter to all sitting Irish MEPs around the upcoming vote regarding fresh talks around a new US EU trade deal. Given the disaster for people and environment that was proposed in the...
Conversations with volunteers: Dominic Hannigan
Comhlámh’s information and support officer Ruth Powell will have a number of conversations with volunteers about their unique experiences of international volunteering over the coming months. Here is the second conversation, with Dominic Hannigan Dominic Hannigan in...
Volunteering and the Sustainable Development Goals
Comhlámh is delighted to host the United Nations Volunteer programme in Dublin for a dialogue on on Volunteering and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Volunteering for the 2030...
Ruth Powell reviews “Learning Service: The Essential Guide to Volunteering Abroad”
The first thing you notice about “Learning Service: The Essential Guide to Volunteering Abroad” is that it comes highly recommended by Noam Chomsky who states that it is “an extraordinary contribution” and “a manifesto for doing good well”. The second...
More than 1,600 people died in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe in the months up to September 2018.
Image from SeaWatch.org Sir, – Ireland is failing in its responsibility to migrants seeking asylum in European countries. More than 1,600 people died in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe in the months up to September 2018. There is little evidence that...
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