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Eyewitness account from Tacloban
The destroyed pier area of Tacloban, Leyte island. This region was the worst affected by the typhoon, causing widespread...
Read ArticleUpdate: Trócaire aid efforts in Philippines
Latest report from Trócaire’s Humanitarian Communications Officer Eoghan Rice in the Philippines Aid is ru...
Read ArticleUpdate: Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines
Eoghan Rice of Trócaire, who is part of an international humanitarian response team currently in the Philippines, speak...
Read ArticlePresident is dear friend of this once war-torn country
by Sally O’Neill, Head of Region, Latin America writing about President Michael D Higgins recent visit to E...
Read ArticleThe long journey to justice and peace in Colombia
Peace in Colombia is far from perfect but after decades of war farmers in the Caquetá region are speaking up for their ...
Read ArticleFrom Cork to Bullee Dheela: How your donations make a difference
by Tamiru Legesse, Communications Officer, Ethiopia Tamiru Legesse from our Ethiopia office vis...
Read ArticleThe Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established at a UN Summit in 2000. The goals which aimed to tackle ...
Read ArticleWe must tackle the structural factors that inhibit development and produce poverty
By Justin Kilcullen, Executive Director of Trócaire Brazilian archbishop Hélder Camara once famously noted, “...
Read ArticleEnding poverty begins with listening to the people
How do we tackle poverty? It’s a question political leaders have grappled with for decades. Twelve years ...
Read ArticlePlay Your Part – Join Trad for Trócaire 2013
Musicians and Trad fans – Trócaire invites you to join us for a wonderful week of ceol agus craic the length and brea...
Read ArticleClimate change hitting Zimbabwe’s farmers hard
By Nelly Maonde, Zimbabwe Livelihoods & Humanitarian Programme Officer. Every year, life gets more difficult ...
Read ArticleFood Not Fuel – make your voice heard ahead of critical MEP vote
People are going hungry because crops are being used to fill our petrol tanks instead of feeding families. Biofuel...
Read ArticleSundays of Sorrow – One woman’s struggle through Colombia’s war
“A Saturday of joy and a Sunday of sorrow” was what the paramilitaries promised. That Saturday, the people...
Read ArticleSalvadorans demand their right to water
By Michael Solis, Trócaire’s Institutional Funding Officer in El Salvador Last week, an estimated 10,00...
Read ArticleSyria: a war that has lost any sense of humanity
By Maurice McQuillan, Trócaire’s Head of Humanitarian The images emerging from Syria this week have shocked the world...
Read ArticleEmpowering Bolivians to tackle climate change
By Tom Crowley, Programme Leader: Sustainable Livelihoods and Environmental Justice Last wee...
Read ArticleThe Israeli Rabbi who pricks Israel’s conscience
Described as “the Rabbi who pricks Israel’s conscience”, Rabbi Arik Ascherman has made a name for himself as a man...
Read ArticleViva Timor: reflecting on 36 years in Timor-Leste
By Kathryn Robertson, Country Representative As we get ready to close the office in Timor-Leste, we have been hav...
Read ArticleWitnessing the mission for a just world
Trócaire diocesan volunteer, Aaron Snoddy, writes about his experiences in the favelas of S...
Read ArticleTrócaire joins the One Percent Difference campaign
New Irish charity initiative shows the difference One Percent of your time or money can make. ...
Read ArticleG8 needs real action to fix a broken system
In the lead up to the G8 summit in Enniskillen, Eoghan Rice reflects on the impact of the current global system of trade...
Read ArticleBy John Monaghan Long-time supporter John Monaghan from Belfast shares his experiences of volunteering with Tróc...
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