LEAF AN IMPRESSION As a celebration of World Environment Day next Tuesday, 5th June, we are hosting a seed-bomb making workshop in Holywell Trust, Bishop Street, Derry from 12:30pm-1:30pm, followed up by an optional walk around the city to launch the seeds and add to the beauty of our amazing city. Lunch will also be…
Development Education and Global Education Facilitators We are growing our team of educators to deliver our Teacher training programme, TIDAL: Educating the Heart. TIDAL: Educating the Heart is an accredited, capacity building training programme for all primary and post-primary teachers throughout Ireland, North and South. TIDAL (Teachers in Development and Learning) supports teachers with the…
A very special coffee morning celebrating Shipquay Hotel’s partnership with Children in Crossfire, which will be held in their restaurant on Friday 1 June between 10:30am and 12noon. Shipquay Hotel is Derry’s newest boutique hotel and is located at 15 – 17 Shipquay Street. We are delighted that they chose to support us as their…
As Children in Crossfire’s Head of International Programmes, sometimes I can get distracted by the day to day work in the office. Therefore it’s nice to reconnect and not lose sight of the lives that will ultimately be impacted by all our effort! One way to remain connected is to relate to what our beneficiaries…
This month we are able to provide an update on 60 families we have been working with over the past 8 years. In 2008 they lived in makeshift houses in a graveyard with no food, no water or access to medicine. The children begged on the street to get the money to feed themselves and…
Beshala was only 18 months when her concerned father, Jemal, made the long journey to St Luke’s Hospital, Wolisso, Ethiopia to seek treatment for his daughter who was suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). In his owns words Jemal tells us how the combination of the Therapeutic Feeding Unit and the training provided for parents…
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 alongside building their capacity for critical thinking and active citizenship. We believe that for long term engagement in issues of global injustice,…
As a lifelong teacher and advocate for young children and families, Mary Kabati embodies the Children in Crossfire values. Mary is the program coordinator for Tanzania Home Economics Association, a Children in Crossfire –funded organization that empowers individuals, families and communities in Tanzania through education and training. Through her work, advocating for young children and their families…
As we continue to remember Possibilities: Be the Revolution, we would like to share this wonderful piece written William Wall back in 2011. The real world is not for sale Every day we are told what the real world is, and it is always the same thing: some world where every human interaction is capable…
In the spirit of remembering Possibilities: Be the Revolution, we would like to share this wonderful piece written by Joe Murray of Afri back in 2011. “Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light delicate sky-blue sphere laced…