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Volunteering abroad PDF Print E-mail

We have over 21,000 women working in 93 countries around the world. Volunteers are always welcome, and if you'd like to do some meaninful medium term voluntary work in a foreign country, then this is where you can find out all about it. Read the pages in this section and see what you think. If you are interested in any of the programmes described, or if you would like us to find out about volunteering in other countries, please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   and we will get back to you as soon as possible with the information you need.

 
Setting out for the mountains of Kenya PDF Print E-mail

by Colette O’Loughlin and Leone McCoole

kenya_06b.jpgTwo Irish girls, Colette O’Loughlin and Leone McCoole, will head off for Kenya in January 2008 to work with the Daughters of Charity. Both of them work in Daughters of Charity services in Ireland, and this has prepared them well for the kind of work they will do in Kenya. In brief essays below, they introduce themselves and describe their hopes and expectations.

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Volunteers to work on DC children’s project in Ukraine PDF Print E-mail

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ukraine_101.jpgTwo DC volunteers, Anne O’Driscoll and Mairead Burke, are travelling to the Ukraine in June 2008 to work on a street project with homeless children. Anne hails from Donegal while Mairead is from Claremorris, and both women have already had experience working with children within the child and family service of the Daughters of Charity here in Ireland.

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Kenya: the DREAM project PDF Print E-mail

dream_01.jpgThe DREAM project is designed to assist Kenyans in ensuring that their children will not be born HIV-positive.

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