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Daniel: the boy on the 2012 Trócaire box
We brought a little bit of Uganda to Ireland this week as we launched our annual Trócaire Lenten campaign, which is abo...
Read ArticleA courageous community leader murdered in Honduras
This week in Trócaire we were shocked to learn about the murder of Matias Valle, an outspoken human rights leader from ...
Read ArticleWhat a difference the rain can make
Caption: Trócaire has used Irish donations to fund vital agriculture programmes in regions such as Ishiara in Kenya. Ph...
Read ArticleChristmas gifts bring hope for Palestinian farmers
As Christmas approaches and the weather gets colder, it is difficult to picture that in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, in the ...
Read ArticleTigist Mekonen was married with three children when she began to feel unwell. Sickness came in waves and Tigist, a fruit...
Read ArticleMartha was convinced that she was going to die. She had just been diagnosed as living with HIV and considered it a death...
Read Article800 families fight for justice
When a sugarcane company recently decided to re-start its operations in the Polochic Valley area of Guatemala, it came a...
Read ArticleTassian & Emmanuel: No ordinary friendship
Standing side-by-side, Tassian and Emmanuel look like two ordinary friends. This is no ordinary friendship, however.&nbs...
Read ArticleTwo people, two thousand miles, one problem
Andrew Lodio has nowhere to go. Drought has ravaged his land, bringing dry desert all around him. A sea of dust stretche...
Read ArticleProof of life: Solving east Africa’s food crisis
In a sea of famine and hunger, a small patch of land in the village of Nakwalekwi, northern Kenya, acts as a beacon of h...
Read ArticleCalls for reform met with murder in Malawi
“Do you think you can challenge our President? If you continue to do this work you will die a slow and painful death. ...
Read ArticleNoam Chayut is no ordinary Israeli soldier. Since leaving the Israeli Defense force, he’s joined Breaking the Silence ...
Read Article50 People, 1 Question: Jerusalem
This summer, we visited a busy marketplace in Jerusalem and asked 50 ordinary people 1 extraordinary question. Wat...
Read ArticleTo highlight the issues behind our campaign to help protect Palestinian homes, we visited Dublin, Cork and Galway with t...
Read ArticlePaying for food and school takes skill and determination in Rwanda
In rural Rwanda budding footballers can be seen kicking about on dusty clay paths while dreaming of a place in the natio...
Read ArticleTruth drips slowly in Zimbabwe
With its tree lined avenues, newly re-opened 5 star hotels and tranquil suburbs (recalling Surrey more than any place in...
Read Article‘If no people help us we will die, of that I am certain’
We met Elella (pictured below) in the town of Lokitaung, around 50km ...
Read ArticleHunger in the land where life began
The Turkana district of northern Kenya is where human life began. The earliest known human remains have been found ...
Read ArticleStarving to death in a world of plenty
Sitting behind a table facing a crowded room of journalists, Mark Bowden, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for So...
Read ArticleI returned to Rwanda, the land of 1000 hills, more like 100,000 hills having worked there in 1994 and 1995 for a few mon...
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