2023-24 Trócaire Annual ROI Annual Report
Download HereTrócaire launches its annual Lenten appeal in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Derry.
Trócaire is fortunate to be one the GAA charity partners 2023/24. Both Trócaire and the GAA are iconic national organisations making a very positive impact on peoples lives. Aligning with Trócaire’s values, Croke Park continues to be a global sporting leader for sustainability standards.
As the worlds most vulnerable continue to pay the price for the global climate crisis, today Trócaire launches its annual Lenten appeal highlighting that it is the next generation who will inherit the climate crisis.
The devastating impacts of climate change are no longer predictions; they are reality. Over 3.6 billion people live in areas highly susceptible to climate change. 2023 provided a stark picture of climate breakdown, from devastating wildfires in Greece, Hawaii and Canada, to a crippling food crisis due to drought in the Horn of Africa, and vicious storms, such as Cyclone Freddy that ripped through communities in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
This year Trócaire’s Lenten campaign is focusing on the people of Malawi who are suffering from repeated droughts, flooding and cyclones and while they try to recover from each devastating event they are then hit again and again, in turn suffering displacement and food shortages. This year, Trócaire is leading efforts to ensure that help reaches those experiencing the worst impacts of climate change. In Malawi 2.3 million people have limited access to food and more than 3.8 million (20% of population) face critical food insecurity in Malawi.
Caoimhe de Barra, Trocaire CEO, said, “It is deeply unjust that those who have done least to cause the climate crisis, and who have the least capacity to adapt, are suffering most severely from its impacts. In particular, marginalised groups such as women and indigenous peoples must not continue to pay the price for global climate inaction. We want to see a sustainable world, where people and the planet flourish and climate action is rooted in the principles of justice, human rights and gender equality, equity, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capacities, polluter pays principle and a just transition.”
Julius Ng’oma, National Coordinator for Trócaire partner ‘Civil Society Network on Climate Change’ said that climate change is having devastating effects on Malawi: “For the past two decades, droughts and flooding have become more intense and frequent. In the past four years alone, we’ve seen a new phenomenon of cyclones which are causing havoc. Thousands of people have died. Homes, schools and roads have been destroyed. Over five and a half million people have been displaced in Malawi by these cyclones in recent years. Cyclone Freddy which hit Malawi in February 2023 caused a dire food shortage as most people lost their livelihoods. The drought and floods are also affecting people’s access to clean water, which also has a knock-on effect on agriculture. These are the current lived impacts of climate change, but if we don’t act globally, it will get even worse in the future.”
For over 50 years Trόcaire has changed the lives of tens of millions of people around the world. Its annual Lenten Appeal sees the iconic Trócaire Box displayed in hundreds of thousands of schools, Churches, and homes all over the country in the build up to Easter.
Last year Trócaire improved the lives of 1.58 million people in 24 of the most fragile countries in the world.