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Arrival in the Philippines

July 10, 2015 in /by

By Peter Hanley and Fainche McCarney After an exhausting journey to the Philippines we were bundled into the back of a van to be whisked away to the Holy Family Retreat House in Cebu. Though we travelled though the city at night we could feel the city pulsing with life as its many inhabitants and […]

A Displaced Society

July 9, 2015 in , /by

By Aoibheann Boyle Aoibheann is participating in the Silver Global Citizen Award. This is the first of her Global Blogs from the Philippines.  My granduncle, who for the duration of 42 years worked in the Philippines with the Columban Brothers, came to visit me last Saturday. He described this sovereign island country in the Southwest […]

Mozambique: First impressions

July 6, 2015 in , /by

Blog 1: First Impressions!  by SERVE Volunteers Rachel Bourke and Megan Porter We’ve only been here in Beira a couple of days and so far we’ve already had so many new experiences. It began with introducing ourselves to local children and students through an extremely competitive game of football which eventually led to having a puck around […]

Wow Badjao

July 5, 2015 in , /by

by Gráinne Lawrenson and Cara Flanagan Wow Badjao On the 1st of July we stepped on a plane, To ourselves we thought are we insane, We were nervous and shaking, All our feet were quaking.   We arrived to the Badjao Tribe, To a sea full of smiles, And we thought to ourselves, This is […]

Youth and the Sustainable Development Goals

June 11, 2015 in /by

By Fiona Agnew Sitting at the Irish Aid event, launching the UN Youth Delegate programme for Ireland in May 2015, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon spoke to us ‘youth’. He urged us to become global citizens, to have compassion for people across the world, to be agents of change starting now, not just in the future. His advice […]

Cooking Up a Storm at Young Africa Mozambique

April 10, 2015 in , /by

By Lindsay Cleary One of the biggest questions in development these days is how to make a programme or project sustainable. Institutional donors and the general public are more and more demanding value for money, and development organisations and their target beneficiaries are more and more demanding an empowerment model that moves on from the […]

14 things only a SERVE volunteer will understand!

March 26, 2015 in /by

Remember walking into Marianella for the first time? Better still, remember trying to find Marianella for the first time?! Well you’re not the only one! Below are 14 things that only SERVE volunteers will understand! Enjoy!  1. There is nothing in this world that is more terrifying (and confusing) than walking into Marianella for the […]