Wins & Successes

Trócaire campaigners on Grafton Street, Dublin, during Lent 2011.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Our climate change campaign has been running since 2008 and our volunteers and campaigners have kept the momentum up over the past year. The end of 2010 saw success when the Irish government committed to providing additional finance to help developing countries adapt to climate change. This was an integral part of our advocacy and campaigning work throughout the year. Thank you to all who helped to make this happen.

So here’s to December 2011 when we’ll continue pressurising the Government ahead of the next round of international negotiations in December in Durban, South Africa.

 

Digna holds a picture of her graduation from kindergarten

DIGNA

Remember Digna, the little girl on this year’s Trócaire box? Well she just graduated from kindergarten!

During Lent we campaigned to keep Digna and her community safe. Earlier this year Digna and her community were held at gunpoint by the private security guards of a rich landowner who wants to evict her family and community.

Thanks to your support Digna and her community can feel a little safer this year.

 

 

FIGHTS AGAINST HUNGER - POLITICIANS RECOMMIT

In 2000, world leaders signed up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which promised to halve the number living in hunger by 2015. Ten years on we asked the Irish and UK governments to outline their progress and continued commitments ahead of a UN Summit on the MDGs, which took place in New York last year.

Our director Justin Kilcullen met with Minister for Overseas Development Peter Power in the Dáil to hand over a petition with 7,000 signatures and the minister recommitted, devoting 20% of Ireland’s development aid to the fight against hunger.

In Northern Ireland Trócaire’s 1,500 signatures joined the UK campaign on the MDGs aimed at Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell asking the UK government to keep their promise to increase overseas aid to 0.7% by 2013 by making it a legally binding commitment. During his first speech to the UN, Nick Clegg stated that this would indeed happen in 2011.