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ElectricAid’s Newsletter for Retired ESB Staff Members

Dear ESB RSA member I am writing to you all through the good offices of the RSA, who have very kindly allowed us to insert this newsletter in their communication with you. ElectricAid needs to reach out to our own members and supporters, and to those of you of you who are not members. WeContinue reading “ElectricAid’s Newsletter for Retired ESB Staff Members”

Development Projects Funded, September 2014

Separate from our Humanitarian Response work, ElectricAid has approved 21 development projects worth €169,000 in our September 2014 funding round. The attached list gives a full breakdown of this life-giving work – all made possible by the sustained generosity of our 2,500 contributing members. As ever, all we can say is – thank you.  Continue reading “Development Projects Funded, September 2014”

ElectricAid visits Prajwala in India

Ratna Nelapati of ITS, BSC, and a former Committee member of ElectricAid, used the occasion of a family visit home to India to visit Prajwala on our behalf. Prajwala is an Indian NGO specialising in the protection, rescue and rehabilitation of women & child victims of sex trafficking. We have funded Prajwala, and Ratna’s excellentContinue reading “ElectricAid visits Prajwala in India”

ElectricAid’s Humanitarian Response in 2014

  ElectricAid’s main focus is on Development, but we do not turn our back on Humanitarian Disasters. So far in 2014, we have committed €87,300 of your generously-donated funds to address humanitarian emergencies all over the world – please see the attached table for full details.   Our Special Appeal has now reached €75,000 –Continue reading “ElectricAid’s Humanitarian Response in 2014”

ElectricAid Humanitarian Response Appeal

    The ESB family comes through again! ElectricAid exhausted our capacity to respond to humanitarian emergencies earlier in the year. Emergency fundings in South Sudan, Gaza, Iraq, and latterly in West Africa (for the Ebola outbreak) simply emptied our bucket. We could do no more, without compromising our core Development work. But there wasContinue reading “ElectricAid Humanitarian Response Appeal”

ElectricAid team rises to ice bucket challenge

The ElectricAid team (John Kelly, Tina Pittock, Philip Rowntree and James Foley) met their icy doom yesterday, Tuesday 02.09.14. We’re still recovering …! The whole point is to raise funds for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association – a fantastic charity that ElectricAid supported last year. You can do this by texting “MND” to 50300Continue reading “ElectricAid team rises to ice bucket challenge”

Syria and Philippines – our members and friends have again answered the call!

ElectricAid’s Special Appeal for Syria and the Philippines has been an outstanding success. This is not our success but yours – the entire ESB and EirGrid communities. From the widow’s mite and the pensioner’s fiver, to the hundreds of very generous contributions (some of 4 figures), right up to ESB’s generous matching contribution, the AppealContinue reading “Syria and Philippines – our members and friends have again answered the call!”