Yes, it’s back again! The ever-popular ElectricAid Book/CD/DVD/Art/Bric-a-Brac Sale is set for 20th and 21st September, in the new and bigger setting of the Gateway Three Conference Room (just across from the Restaurant). We will have loads of extra space to sell loads of great stuff at knock-down prices – provided of course that YOU…
UNHCR ‘s Kakuma Camp Refugee Camp is one of the largest in the world, covering 150 km2 and accommodating an estimated 180,000 people. The camp is in Turkana, NW Kenya, and has received successive waves of Sudanese, Somali and South Sudanese refugees. The Jesuit Relief Service (JRS) provides some health (including mental health) services in…
Sierra Leone has gone through everything – 20 years of civil war, hunger, HIV/AIDS and Ebola – and keeps coming back. Christian Aid has been in the country since 1988, and ElectricAid has funded many development and relief programmes – see our recent post on co-funding with ILCU Foundation and SAVVI.. The development context…
Aidlink visited this farmers group at Naleewo along the river Turkwell, in Northern Kenya. With support from Electric Aid in 2016, this group of 25 agro-pastoralist families was provided with access to water and trained in sustainable agriculture. Normally this river is flowing year-round but the drought means that water has receded significantly and it ran…
The Irish League of Credit Unions Foundation (ILCUF) is a peer fund for ElectricAid. ILCUF is the international development outreach of the Credit Union movement in Ireland, primarily focused on aiding the development and sustenance of credit unions in the developing world. Access to micro credit, especially amongst women, is a key driver of successful…
Christian Aid’s application to ElectricAid was for the re-design and completion of a local irrigation scheme in South Omo, Ethiopia. ElectricAid’s modest contribution of €8,712, together with similar co-funding from the Church of Ireland Bishops’ Appeal, has leveraged the completion of a relatively-large project. Our inputs were for some completion works, tools, and community training.…
ElectricAid’s Annual Report for 2016 is now published. The Report demonstrates another year of solid success for your Charity – but what is success? Success is not just in fundraising, efficient administration and high standards of governance – although we have had all three in spades in 2016. Success is in service to our less…
La Gonâve is the largest off-shore island of Haiti, and the least-developed part of this least-developed country in the Americas. This hot and very dry island’s already-inadequate water infrastructure was damaged in the earthquake of 2010, and badly neglected thereafter. Concern’s WASH (Water, sanitation & hygiene) programme on La Gonâve is addressing these issues, rehabilitating…
