In March 2016, Coláiste Cois Life participated in a SERVE School Immersion Programme. The group of 16 students travelled to South Africa with Chris O’Donoghue to work alongside our partner Tsholofelo in Rustenburg. Adhering to Comhlamh’s Code of Good Practice, SERVE met with the students 4 times over the year prior to departure introducing the students to different global […]
By students of Coláiste Cois Life 16 students are currently in Rustenburg, South Africa where they are taking part in a SERVE School Immersion Programme. These are their diary entries from Sunday 20th March until Tuesday 23rd March. Day 1, Sunday 20th March : After having breakfast at 7:30am we all got dressed for mass. […]
In Ireland, our children go to school every morning. They don’t have to worry about violence or civil war when they walk down the street. They can access health care, support and welfare should they need it. There is support for Mothers and Carers. In Mozambique, 1 in 17 children die before their 5th birthday from […]
By Megan Porter When I began my volunteer journey with SERVE last year, it was because a past volunteer was always hounding me with stories. Telling me about the amazing people she met in Freedom Park, how the work they were doing was changing people’s lives and how it tied into wider issues of development. […]
By Karina McGinley Karina is participating in the Gold Global Citizen Award. This is the sixth of her Global Blogs from South Africa ‘Beans, beans, a wonderful fruit, the more you eat the more you….’ Maybe it is just me, but the above statement was common during my childhood. I have vivid memories of singing along to this […]
By Karina McGinley Karina is participating in the Gold Global Citizen Award. This is the fifth of her Global Blogs from South Africa As the New Year dawns we are all inundated with Facebook statutes and Tweets proclaiming ‘New year, new me’, ‘Gym from now on’, ‘Only organic food’, you know yourself! Well as I was going […]
“With exclusion and inequality on the rise, we must step up efforts to ensure that all people, without discrimination, are able to access opportunities to improve their lives and those of others”.
– Secretary General Ban- Ki -Moon
SERVE volunteer Constantin Becker reflecting on his time so far with SERVE’s Think Global Act Local programme.
SERVE Programmes Intern Sinad Mulry reflecting on her time so far with SERVE’s Think Global Act Local programme.
By Mary Mullarkey Mary is participating in the Bronze Global Citizen Award. This is the second of her global blogs. Poverty is a pandemic in the Philippines with over 60% of the Filipino population experiencing it. When I arrived in Cebu and travelling to the Holy Family Retreat House, I had never witnessed such poverty in […]
The estimated one billion people living with disabilities worldwide face barriers to inclusion in many key aspects of society. As a result, people with disabilities do not enjoy access to society on an equal basis with others, which includes areas of transportation, employment, education as well as social and political participation. (Source: UN) The inclusion of disability […]
Volunteering Opportunity with Young Africa Namibia – Business Plan Development (i) Introduction SERVE (www.serve.ie), an Irish based NGO, works in partnership with Young Africa Namibia (www.youngafrica.org/namibia) who provide holistic vocational training to marginalised young people with the aim of improving their employment and income generating skills. Young Africa (YA) Namibia specialises in training in […]
