Educating the Heart
5 Good Reasons and a Few Words of Wisdom Recently, Children in Crossfire has been working on evolving its Development Education practice to nurture the emotional well-being of young people…
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SARAH KILLEN As part of our Interactive Media Arts Degree we each had to take part in a client brief for a charity organisation. The ‘Children in Crossfire’ brief immediately…
Compassion – Xiaoling’s Story
Before this internship, I had never really thought about the word compassion. I thought of it as synonymous with the words kind, caring and nice. The words we would just…
New Teaching methods
New Teaching Methods to engage Children in learning It’s shocking that only ¼ of children in Tanzania have access to pre-primary school education. Children who attend pre-school do much better…
What is Development Education
As well as our work on the ground with children in Tanzania and Ethiopia, Children in Crossfire is committed to Development Education in Ireland and UK. What is Development Education?’…
5 Things about Children in Crossfire
Having decided to take a year out of education before attending university, Micheál Gallagher started volunteering at Children in Crossfire in October 2014. He reflects on what was an intense…
Visually Impaired Volunteers in International Development
By Laura McCauley My first ever memory of Africa is that of TV ads showing images of sick, starving children living in horrendous conditions. The kind of images that were…
Feyiftu’s Story
One-year old Feyiftu was severely malnourished and gravely ill when her mother, Berhane, brought her to St. Luke’s Hospital. the local clinic near to their home in the rural village…
Laurensia’s Story
Laurensia is a farmer with seven children and one grandchild. She coordinates three Women’s Groups in total. Through her training to become a Volunteer Coordinator, she has substantially increased her…
Modou’s Story
Modou is seven years old and has been blind from birth. He has been attending GOVI for almost four years. Modou lives in a compound with his family which is…