ElectricAid has funded work for Sightsavers in the last 2 years in Mozambique (fitting-out an eye clinic) and Ghana (Trachoma elimination programme). This time, we are funding a comprehensive eye care programme in 5 rural districts of Uttar Pradesh, India, benefiting thousands of very poor patients. The damage caused by eye diseases like Trachoma,…
ElectricAid has a long-standing funding relationship with SVP and Ozanam House Resource Centre, an activity and life skills centre for deprived young people in North Inner-City Dublin. In September 2014, we funded them with €7,400 for activities, life-skills, sports and after-school clubs. One activity they are to undertake is a challenging weekend in Killary…
Goats lift 80 families out of Poverty In 2013, ElectricAid co-funded (with VIVA) a goat husbandry scheme aimed at 80 poor and marginalised women and their families, engaged in farming and brick-making in Faisalbad, Pakistan. The project has been a remarkable success. Please read the attached final report, to see how development works for real…
Background Kaoma and surrounding town-land, with a population of approximately 80,000, is located in Western Province, one of the poorest areas in Zambia. Sishekanu Community School was established by an Irish missionary in 1998 to provide education for orphans and other vulnerable children in the Kaoma area. Alan Kerins Projects first became involved with…
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 –…
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 Appeal…
Our emergency funds are exhausted … The world is very troubled, and innocent people are suffering greatly. Over the last month, ElectricAid has committed all of our emergency funds to four separate areas of strife, where the needs are extreme: South Sudan Oxfam Ireland Concern Care for internally-displaced people (IDPs) Nutrition for S.…
ElectricAid recently committed €5000, on your behalf, to the Irish Red Cross’ response effort in Gaza. Declan Curran of the IRC provided us with this update: ‘In Gaza, more than 1,900 people have been killed and some 10,000 wounded since hostilities began. At least 400,000 people have been displaced and more than 9,000 homes rendered uninhabitable.…
