Twenty Fifteen is a collaborative book project between Self Help Africa, students from Coláiste Bhríde, Carnew and St. Peter’s College, Dunboyne.
The book series features a collection of reflections around the Millennium Development Goals by Irish students, figures from public life, and of some of Ireland’s leading literary writers, including Seamus Heaney, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Joseph O’Connor, Hugo Hamilton, Bernard McLaverty, Aubrey Flegg and Alan Rickman.
Sold in bookshops across Ireland during the 15-year period of the 7 internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals, each book focuses on a different Millennium Development Goal such as ending extreme poverty, improving maternal health and promoting gender equality and to empower women.
The series was pioneered as a student-led response with student across the Loreto School’s Network with editorial and production team.
The project began with a series of workshops on Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals agenda in 2009. Transition Year students wanted an action that would reflect their frustration and disappointment with the progress in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Programme.”
– Project co-ordinator Patsy Toland of Self-Help Africa
Source: Self-Help Africa
Year: 2000-2015
Courtesy of Patsy Toland and Dorothy Jacob
Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects is organised by developmenteducation.ie, an online hub focused on learning about the unequal and unjust shape of the world today, and is coordinated by Aidlink, Concern Worldwide, the Irish Development Education Association, the National Youth Council of Ireland, Self Help Africa, Trócaire and 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World.
DevelopmentEducation.ie is part funded by Irish Aid.
