Author Archives: Angelica Pacturanan

Sustainable Development Goals 2030 – Are they any different?

Firstly.. What were the Millennium Development Goals 2015? Have they been achieved? The greatest challenge facing humanity is to work collectively to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality. In 2000, this influenced the Member States of UN to implement the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in order to set a series of time-boundContinue reading “Sustainable Development Goals 2030 – Are they any different?”

Members are invited.. to ElectricAid’s 2015 AGM

All members are cordially invited to our 2015 AGM, taking place on Tuesday 26th April, at 3:00 pm in the Head Office Conference Centre. Please join us when we review 2015, a year of growth and renewal for ElectricAid. Our Officers, Trustees and Committee are all up for election this year. Click here for the ElectricAidContinue reading “Members are invited.. to ElectricAid’s 2015 AGM”

Ethiopia Deaf Project – The Ambo Lazarist Deaf School

The Ethiopia Deaf Project has a long-term support relationship with the Ambo Lazarist Deaf School in Ambo, Ethiopia. A series of workshops and needs analysis carried out through the Deaf Community in Ireland resulted to a proposal to build a specialist school for children with hearing difficulties from Grades 5-8. Appreciation of Children’s rights toContinue reading “Ethiopia Deaf Project – The Ambo Lazarist Deaf School”

Our Project of the Month for January – Building Drought Resilience in Turkana

  Turkana is an isolated ASAL (Arid and Semi-Arid Land) in Northern Kenya – the poorest region in the country. The people are mostly nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists, with a limited agricultural tradition. In the last 15 years, Turkana has suffered droughts of increasing intensity and frequency. These droughts have increased the range of theContinue reading “Our Project of the Month for January – Building Drought Resilience in Turkana”

ElectricAid’s January 2016 Fundings

Please see below our full listing of the 25 projects approved for funding in our January 2016 round. We have committed €188,000 of your generously-donated funds. The plan pictures is of Emesco’s new rural health centre in Maisuuka, Uganda – which will be built for €21,000, including €12,000 from ElectricAid. This is life-saving work –Continue reading “ElectricAid’s January 2016 Fundings”

The Great ElectricAid 2016 – Election Predictor Competition

Launching this week – the Great ElectricAid Election predictor! Get your anorak on, and have some fun with the Election. Predict the seats outcome, party-by-party. You could scoop the prize pool – and it could be massive. 50% of the entire entry pool will go to the winner(s); the rest will go for fantastic projectsContinue reading “The Great ElectricAid 2016 – Election Predictor Competition”