Overseas Volunteering and Aid

Vincentians Lay Missionaries - forms and facilitates volunteers to immerse themselves in the experience and culture of the Vincentian mission overseas, so that reflecting on the learned experience, they will, on their return, effect change and transformation both locally and globally.

 

Atse Tekle Ghiorgis School (ATSE) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia began in the 1960’s as a centre for educating the children of leprosy victims and handicapped people who were ostracised by society.

Suas Educational Development is Ireland's only charity solely dedicated to supporting education in the developing world. Also a good site for more information about Volunteering Overseas.

Mary’s Meals - an international movement to set up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education

 

World Bank – working for a world free of poverty

 

Justpeace – Catholic social justice teachings

Trocaire – working for a just world

 

Bread for the World – a collective Christian voice working towards ending hunger

The Hunger Site – working to help eradicate world hunger