Today we were pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Climate Action Awards, recognising climate action by Misean Cara members and communities on the frontlines of climate change. This year’s winners come from projects in Nigeria, India, and Zambia and were received by three Misean Cara members and their local partners: The Saint Patrick’s […]
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Misean Cara Health Projects Officer, Niamh Caffrey, was one of the speakers this week at the 2023 conference of the Irish Global Health Network. Presented as a TEDx style format, the conference included a line-up of speakers, storytellers and entertainers brought together to encourage creativity, innovation and activism in addressing issues of Humanity & Health
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Misean Cara is delighted to be shortlisted for a 2023 Good Governance Award, recognising excellence in charity Annual Reports. Our 2022 Annual Report is shortlisted in Category 6, for organisations with an annual turnover of between €10 million and €50 million. Winners of the 2023 Awards will be announced at an awards ceremony in Dublin
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For the 8th year in a row, Misean Cara is pleased to have been a co-presenter of a live broadcast on RTÉ of Mission Sunday Mass in celebration of World Mission Sunday on 22 October 2023. Misean Cara co-hosted the mass with MISSIO Ireland (The Pope’s official charity for overseas mission / www.missio.ie) and AMRI
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Read about Misean Cara and our members’ work in international development in the World Mission Sunday Supplement of The Irish Catholic Newspaper, 19th October issue. Click here to read the issue. Articles include a feature interview with Sr Mary McAteer of the Missionary Sisters of the Assumption sharing her experiences as a missionary in South
Pope Francis’s new initiative for the planet, the papal letter Laudate Deum released on Wednesday 4th October, is another Call to Action, following on from the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ – since, as the Holy Father said, “our responses have not been adequate”. Laudate Deum is another, more urgent call to Catholics, faith leaders and
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Eleven-year-old Edith Namanda was diagnosed in primary school as both hearing and sight impaired, a condition known as deafblindness. Since 2019, she has been enrolled at the Bauleni Special Needs Project and School (BSNP) in Lusaka, Zambia, the only school in the country to provide education and support to children who have deadblindness. While at
Read our guest blog on the website of the Irish Forum for Global Education! Click here to read about the contributions of missionaries to global education and the unique ways they enable access to quality, inclusive and equitable education to the furthest behind, a critical pathway to empowering people in developing countries to achieve a
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Conflict, Climate, Hunger: A Call to Action Yesterday, Misean Cara joined with other Dóchas members in the launch of a public Pre-Budget submission campaign, which amongst its recommendations is that the Irish Government fulfill its longstanding commitment of spending 0.7% of GNI on ODA by increasing the ODA budget in 2024 by €305m. Dóchas members
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“Because I can read, I can take care of myself now. After being in the literacy programme, I live in a world of light, because I can see and recognise letters and words!”-Maria de Jesus, Brazil Maria de Jesus – Brazil Project: Literacy project for young people, adults and the elderly Misean Cara Member: Religious
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