Stories of Change
Showcasing action projects, advocacy and community campaigns.

Issues night: Child labour
Celtic Youth Bray runs it’s infamous ‘issues night’- an experiential event where youth members (aged 12 – 16) role play the lives of people from other places in the world.

Using technology to explore global issues
GOAL and Bridge21 collaborated on a three-day technology and global issues workshop, held in Bridge21’s purpose-designed learning space in Trinity College, Dublin

One World Week 2013
In 2013, the theme for OWW was ‘The World Young People Want’. One World Week is a week of youth-led awareness raising, education and action

Debate Project Capacity Building for Tutors
The capacity building programme aimed to engage tutors in learning and teaching about Development Education (DE) in existing adult education programmes. The DEBATE Project developed

The After School Arms Club: Highlighting loopholes by brokering arms legally into Ireland
In 2006 well known campaigning comedian Mark Thomas approached Irish non-governmental organisation Afri having become aware of Afri’s work on the arms trade. He asked

Human Rights Biographies
The human rights biographies project was designed to encourage participants to explore their own personal experiences of human rights issues in their own lives to

World Don’t Hide – Cherish Every Child
Raising awareness of children’s lives in developing countries, as explored by St Ciaran’s NS, Hartstown, Dublin fifth class teacher Maeve Gilligan. We took part in

Empower Girls – Is the World Girl-Friendly?
Setting up a mini NGO to promote MDG No. 2 – Education for all, our three Transition Year groups participated in the schools network project

M2M – Millstreet to Malawi
The idea for M2M-Millstreet to Malawi arose from the clip contained on the Trócaire website relating to the Lenten Campaign 2014 (see links section below).

Modern Slavery Mural: Exploring modern slavery in the school and the classroom
Development education projects allow us to focus on one issue and explore what kind of injustices cause that suffering and what value questions are evoked

Econowha?
Econowha? Is an online educational resource that is available online for free. It is comprised of a 9 part lesson plan, featuring guest bloggers for

The costs of war in the context of the war in Iraq: a youth focused workshop
Let’s Talk was a series of workshops for young people debating and analysing current issues undertaken in partnership with TIDE (Teachers in Development Education) based

Famine Walk
The Famine Walk project is an annual walk commemorating those who died in the Irish Famine and about linking the famine experience in Ireland with

MDG’s Education Campaign
An advocacy capacity building exercise involving students in directly lobbying Brussels and New York on the MDG agenda in 2008. The project was conceived as

Walk for Water: linking Ireland with water and human rights issues in Kenya
Walk for Water works to highlight the crises of unequal access to water and sanitation around the world, it aims to highlight the centrality of

Twenty-Fifteen: the Millennium Development Goals book series
The project began with a series of workshops on Poverty and the MDG agenda in 2009. TY students wanted an action that would reflect their

Human Rights Week: Community activities exploring human rights in Dublin North East Inner City
LYCS Human Rights Week (HRW) is a week of activities exploring various aspects of human rights. LYCS is a community development project in Dublin North

P.E.P.Y. (Promoting Equality for Palestinian Youth)
P.E.P.Y. is a mini NGO we created project as part of the wider Mini-NGOs in schools: the Global Citizens Network Project organised by Schools Across

Exploring injustice using key equations & relationships – a geographers’ workshop
The Geography Syllabi at Junior and Senior Levels, Post-Primary have strong strands on development issues and the AGTI has undertaken many workshops on the subject

Mini-NGOs in Schools
The Mini-NGOs in schools initiative is part of the Global Citizens Network Project in 2013-14. Less Charity – more Justice!We wanted to move beyond ‘charitable’

Remembering Rwanda: the genocide wall mural
From the outset this visual arts and community project sought to explore genocide through educational challenges and opportunities. The activity was designed to mark the

Cultures Colliding at the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Culture
The Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Culture Public Education Project was initiated by Dundrum Rathdown Youth Service as a youth led public education project focused on the theme of interculturalism

Living in the Hollow of Plenty and the Hunger Map
The 20 page briefing paper, Living in the Hollow of Plenty: World Hunger Today and its accompanying support activities are part of the Food Rights