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Mark Daly attends opening of Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre

(23 Jan 6pm) Senator Mark Daly, attended the opening the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre on O’Connell Street, Dublin. The state-of-the-art Centre will provide information on overseas development challenges, Ireland’s efforts to fight poverty and on opportunities for the individual to get involved in development aid, at home and abroad. Senator Daly is the Seanad Spokesperson on Overseas Development and is pictured (attached) with Ministers Dermot Ahern and Michael Kitt and Mr. Sean Lyons of KADE, Kerry Action for Development Education.

Senator Daly commented, “The centre will go along way to raise awareness of development issues and make more and better information on development-related volunteering available especially for young people, I was delighted to hear that already 50 school groups from across Ireland are to visit in the first half of 2008”.
 
Irish Aid is Ireland’s official programme of assistance to the poorest countries in the world. The Irish Aid Volunteering & Information Centre is a state of the art, multi-media exhibition space, designed to raise awareness of development issues and the role of Irish Aid in tackling global poverty.  

Visitors to the new centre will be encouraged to think of ways in which they can make a personal contribution to development whether through volunteering, purchasing Fairtrade products or taking steps towards sustainable living.  A specially designed educational programme is available in the Centre’s workshop for second-level school groups.

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