Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Values
We are motivated by the following values:
RESPECT
Openness and flexibility in the way we think and act. It involves compassion, empathy, humility, having a reflective and critical awareness of ourselves and others and of structures and systems.
INTEGRITY
Honesty, fairness, transparency, and accountability in everything we do.
SOLIDARITY
Taking longer-term action in mutually supportive relationships on issues identified by those most affected. It is premised on interconnectedness and interdependence, and involves a critical voice, a recognition of power differentials and acting together for positive change.
ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
Understanding ourselves as integrated with and impacting on the environment whilst recognising and acting on our individual and collective responsibility in this regard.
Our Objectives
Objective 1:
Shape Thinking
What We Aim to Achieve
- An innovative, engaged, and resilient values-based movement providing thought leadership.
- A diverse and inclusive body of knowledge shaping and contributing to transformative thinking.
- Exploratory, experimental, and collective initiatives working to influence policy and key decision makers.
Objective 2:
Shape Practice
What We Aim to Achieve
- Practice that supports transformative change is embedded across the volunteering sector.
- Global Citizenship Education is recognised as crucial to establishing conditions for learning and transformation, and is applied across practice.
- An active and critically engaged volunteering sector with the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and stamina to respond to injustices and unsustainability in ways that are rooted in solidarity.
Objective 3:
Shape Action
What We Aim to Achieve
- Diverse, active, and sustained Comhlámh membership and member groups thriving, learning, and acting for change.
- A critical and reflexive public discourse engaging target groups, social change movements, and their audiences.
- An ecosystem of care directly and indirectly nurturing and supporting new expressions of global solidarity.
Our Partners
Our partners include
- Volunteer Sending Agencies (VSAs) and organisations that support Comhlámh’s Code of Good Practice
- People who volunteer, work, or act in solidarity with communities in the Global South
- Comhlámh members, member groups and their audiences
- Migrant solidarity responders and humanitarian responders
- Irish national volunteering sector (Volunteer Centres and Volunteer Ireland)
- National and international networks, educators, institutions, and groups working to achieve local and global justice
Together with our partners, members, and member groups, we are committed to achieving local and global justice through cultivating:
- 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 challenge.
Want to Dig Deeper?
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