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 to…

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 –…

Mary’s Meals – ONE child at a time

Mary’s Meals is a Scottish NGO with a simple philosophy. They feel that the best way of promoting education and opportunity in the Developing World is to give each school-going child a nourishing meal. They are now (January 2016) feeding 1,101,206 children daily! Keeping them fed, nourishes them, and keeps them in school. Staying in…

Africa Direct – Small fundings, big results!

Africa Direct is a small, completely voluntary Cork-based NGO, doing great “hands-on” work on behalf of some of the most vulnerable people of Kenya. ElectricAid has funded Africa Direct 4 times since 2008, with a modest total of €39,000. This has allowed them to Build a refuge and training centre for displaced and vulnerable young…