The Morocco earthquake ripped through the Atlas Mountains on Friday 8 September, leaving death and destruction in its wake, in one of the most beautiful and remote regions of the country. Within days there was widespread destruction across Libya’s east after Storm Daniel led to heavy flooding, with experts estimating that 30 million cubic metres of water were released into Derna after the dams broke. The humanitarian aid need in both countries is high.
Today, ElectricAid has responded with a commitment of €20,000 to be shared equally to both devastated regions. Working with partners The Red Cross and UNICEF pledges of €10,000 will go to each region to help with the much relied on relief effort. This donation has been made possible through the tireless fundraising and commitment to helping those less fortunate held by the ElectricAid membership.
Thank you for your continued support of ElectricAid, you are truly making a difference to the most marginalised people in society.
On Friday 8th September, ElectricAid held launched the 2022 Annual Report in F27.
This was an informal networking event which allowed the ElectricAid committee to meet the faces behind the wonderful charities that they regularly support.
Both Paddy Hayes and Jim Dollard joined the ElectricAid committee in welcoming the charity partners.
Shana Dillon, Organisation Development Manager, opened the event and Judith Doherty, Chair of ElectricAid, gave an overview of the charity’s performance in 2022.
We are incredibly grateful for all of the support from our ElectricAid members. This support allows us to truly make a difference.
A Brighter Communities Project funded by ElectricAid
Thanks to ElectricAid and Brighter Communities Worldwide, 11 health facilities were better prepared for administering vaccines because they had new fridges for storage, cooler boxes for transport, PPE and display materials about the COVID-19 vaccine to inform the community who attended their facilities.
The training of 100 Health Care Workers on Cold Chain Management enabled them to provide effective and high quality immunisation services to the community members, particularly targeting children under 5 years, girls 10-14 years, expectant mothers and community members eligible for COVID -19 vaccination.
206 Community Health Volunteers were trained and were able to inform 4,674 households reaching 23,370 beneficiaries about COVID-19 and its vaccine.
“Our children can now access vaccinations without having to travel distances or missing vaccines on the appointed date.’’
Community Member from Belgut Sub County
During this grant period, 6,139 people received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Earlier this year, ElectricAid had the pleasure of funding a Solar Powered Water Pump in Sierra Leonethrough the St John of God Foundation which affected the lives of over 250 students and faculty.
This pump provides 24/7 access to fresh, clean water
The project aligned to 2 of the United Nation’s 17 Goals:
Goal 6: To achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030.
Goal 7: To achieve affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.
This water pump means that students no longer need to travel long distances for water access and are therefore able to attend more lectures and focus on their studies.
One student stated that “Access to water couldn’t have come at a better time. It has reduced the burden of getting up early to fetch water and has allowed us to spend more time studying for our exams”
The availability of water has:
Created a much more positive atmosphere on campus.
Reduced late attendance to morning lectures by 60%.
Improved sanitisation by 40%.
We wish all of the students the very best in their studies. – ElectricAid
please see the document below which contains the nominees for the Nominees for ElectricAid 2023-2024 Committee and a bio explaining why they should be elected. The committee will be elected at the ElectricAid AGM taking place on the 15th June 2023
ElectricAid is pleased to announce that its Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on June 15th, 2023. The event will be hosted both in person and virtually. The AGM serves as a platform for ElectricAid to discuss key achievements, and outline future plans.
if you would like to attend please fill out the form linked below.
The Election of ElectricAid Committee 2023 – 2024 will also take place at the AGM with attendees casting their votes via online poll. If you would like to join the committee and play your part in supporting aid and development projects at home and abroad, you must register your interest via www.electricaid.ie (form link below) before 12pm 1st of June 2023.
If you are interested in joining the ElectricAid committee, please select one of the following roles detailed in the form linked below as well as emailing a profile picture to electricaid@esb.ieby 12pm, 1st of June 2023 which will be added to the website in advance of the election.
ElectricAid will host its 2022 AGM on Thursday 15th June 2023 at 12.30pm.
This will be a hybrid event, in person, held in Conference room, ESB Head Office, 27 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 and via MS Teams and all ESB & EirGrid serving and retired staff are welcome to join.
Teas & Coffees at 12pm
AGM 12.30pm Agenda
Welcome & opening address
Minutes of 2021 AGM,
Executive Report
Honorary Treasurer’s Report for year ended 31/12/2022.
Appointment of Auditors
Election of Trustees (2)
Election of Honorary Officers (4)
Election of Executive Committee.(10)
Proposed Amendments to the Constitution
Any Other Business
More information on registration for the AGM will follow in the coming days
ElectricAid are delighted to meet our SeeBeyondBorders Cambodian Education Technology Partners in F27.
In September 2022, ElectricAid announced our partnership with See Beyond Borders and signed an MoU to pilot an Education Technology Programme in 11 schools in Cambodia.
SeeBeyondBorders(SBB), an Irish education charity has been operating in Cambodia over the last 13 years and has trained over 500 teachers in 199 schools, transforming education for more than 27,000 children in rural northwest Cambodia.
This event will be a great opportunity for all our members and colleagues to meet the CEO and Chairperson of SeeBeyondBorders together with the visiting team from Cambodia, who plan to share with us the impact that our partnership has made in the 11 schools.
ElectricAid committed to €40,000 to year one of this innovative education programme aimed at building technology skills and digital resources. By February, 23 teachers and 27 mentors had improved their technology knowledge and skills in all schools, providing 728 children with a more engaging and quality learning experience.
Commenting on the pilot, grade-one teacher Khoun Sophon added;
“I never thought thatsomething I found so challenging at first could becomeso helpful to me, especially in my classroommanagement. It really has increased my students’participation and attendance.”
Attending the ElectricAid / SeeBeyondBorders Presentation:
Phath Blung is the Country Manager and he will talk about the education system in Cambodia, providing context and explain why he is motivated to ensure Cambodian children have access to a quality education.
Mel Cashen – Mel is the Programme Design and Development Advisor and she will talk through the impact of the SeeBeyondBorders approach of focusing on the mentoring and upskilling of Cambodian teachers and how access to educational technology improves Cambodian children’s learning outcomes.
Phath and Mel will be supported by;
SreyPhetPhan – whose work as Project manager/Educational Changemaker with SeeBeyondBorders has supported a new generation of young Cambodian female leaders.
Boumy Thanh – Boumy has worked very closely with teachers and District Office of Education staff in Bavel and Ek Phnom and Boumy became the Project Manager for our Embedding Mentoring and a core member of the team supporting programme implementation.Thanh Boumy/Project Manager – Embedding Mentoring.
Pov Pheung – Pov has over15 years’ experience as an educator. He supports the Cambodian Leadership Team as a mentor while completing his Masters in Education in Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. Pov is due to return to Cambodia in May. Cambodian Leadership Team Mentor.
Also accompanying our team with be four students from PEPY Empowering Youth. PEPY is a non-profit working in the Siem Reap district of Northern Cambodia that provides personal and professional development training to rural youth.
PEPY have had links to Irish schools for 10 years and over that time have worked closely with Chair of SBBI Maeve Corish.
Attending the ElectricAid / SeeBeyondBorders Presentation:
Phath Blung is the Country Manager and he will talk about the education system in Cambodia, providing context and explain why he is motivated to ensure Cambodian children have access to a quality education.
Mel Cashen – Mel is the Programme Design and Development Advisor and she will talk through the impact of the SeeBeyondBorders approach of focusing on the mentoring and upskilling of Cambodian teachers and how access to educational technology improves Cambodian children’s learning outcomes.
Phath and Mel will be supported by;
SreyPhetPhan – whose work as Project manager/Educational Changemaker with SeeBeyondBorders has supported a new generation of young Cambodian female leaders.
Boumy Thanh – Boumy has worked very closely with teachers and District Office of Education staff in Bavel and Ek Phnom and Boumy became the Project Manager for our Embedding Mentoring and a core member of the team supporting programme implementation.Thanh Boumy/Project Manager – Embedding Mentoring.
Pov Pheung – Pov has over15 years’ experience as an educator. He supports the Cambodian Leadership Team as a mentor while completing his Masters in Education in Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. Pov is due to return to Cambodia in May. Cambodian Leadership Team Mentor.
Also accompanying our team with be four students from PEPY Empowering Youth. PEPY is a non-profit working in the Siem Reap district of Northern Cambodia that provides personal and professional development training to rural youth.
PEPY have had links to Irish schools for 10 years and over that time have worked closely with Chair of SBBI Maeve Corish.
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