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As we near the end of 2022, we take a look back at a year of immense challenges for communities Trócaire works with through 12 powerful pictures. Your support was vital for thousands of people this year, from those coping with drought in the Horn and East of Africa to Syrian refugees living through a biting winter cold in refugee camps in Lebanon. Thank you for your continued support.
This year, Trócaire's Lent campaign focused on a family who have struggled with drought, food shortages and COVID. Thandekile, (31), is a mother and one of seven million people living in poverty in drought-prone southern Zimbabwe. Trócaire is supporting Thandekile and other families in her community through our partner Caritas Bulawayo. Here she talks with Trócaire's Yvonne Muto and David O'Hare. Photo: Barnaby Jaco Skinner.
In September Tommy Tiernan travelled to Somalia to see Trócaire's work in a country on the verge of famine. Ruth Mwangi, Trócaire Resilience Programme Officer tells Tommy Tiernan about a Trócaire food security programme run on a farm next to Jazira IDP camp in Luuq, Gedo Region, Somalia. In total Trócaire has leased 32 hectares of land for 150 women who are growing crops ranging from maize, beans and sorghum. Photo: Miriam Donohoe/Trócaire.
At Trócaire’s new ‘Connections’ series at The Mac in Belfast, Maudi Tzay Patal, a Human Rights Defender from Trócaire's Guatemala partner ECAP, talks about human rights with Monica McWilliams. This year, Monica released her memoir ‘Stand Up, Speak Out: My Life Working for Women’s Rights, Peace and Equality in Northern Ireland and Beyond’. Photo: Trócaire/Justin Kernoghan
Aker, 35 is a mother of four is pictured here with her children Chudi, 6 and Monday, 4. Aker lives off the food she grows on her farm but the changing climate in South Sudan has led to drought that has destroyed her crops. Aker has been supported with seeds, tools and emergency food from Trócaire partner Caritas Rumbek. Photo: Achuoth Deng/Trócaire.
In Sierra Leone, Fatmata Kamara and her husband Ibrahim Kamara have taken part in Living in Peace Methodology supported by Trócaire and the EU. The training aims to change the inequity of gender roles in the household and village. Following the training Fatmata led a campaign to guarantee all women in the community had access to land. Photo: Edward Kamara/Trócaire.
In May, the finals of Trócaire's Game Changers National competition were held at the Lighthouse cinema in Dublin. Pictured are Catarina and Kira from Mercy Convent Naas who came third in the primary category. The programme invited students from all over Ireland to create a development education game that focuses on one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Photo: Peter Houlihan/Trócaire.
In November, Trócaire welcomed the agreement at COP27 for the establishment of a Loss and Damage fund aimed at providing vital financial support to the millions affected by climate change in developing countries. But this COP failed to agree a phase out of fossil fuels and was weak on climate finance. Pictured here, Kula Halake, 58, an agro-pastoralist from Mora Mora village in Borena Zone, Ethiopia stands next to one of her dead cows during Ethiopia's 2022 drought. Photo: Barnaby Jaco Skinner/Trócaire.
On November 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Trócaire's Mary Coogan reflected on a recent trip to Hebron with Trócaire and partner Breaking the Silence. Breaking the Silence are a group of ex Israeli soldiers who work to raise awareness of the daily realities of life in the occupied Palestinian territory, with the long-term aim of ending the occupation. Pictured here, Tal Sagi from Breaking the Silence during the tour of Hebron. Photo: Ahmad Alami.
Haymnot Hansamo (left) works with Trócaire partner WE Action. She is a project facilitator in the Baka-Dawla region of South Omo, Ethiopia. She works with multiple self-help groups of vulnerable and low-income women. "We help encourage the women to discuss gender issues, equality in the household, self-confidence and life skills to help them feel more confident and to enhance their position in society.” Photo: Barnaby Jaco Skinner/Trócaire.
Former Armagh football star, Oisin McConville, issued a heartfelt Christmas plea to the people of Northern Ireland to support the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon who have been forced to flee their homes due to the 11-year-long civil war. Oisin is pictured here launching the Trócaire Christmas Appeal from the charity at St. Mary's Church in Belfast. The clothes represent the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon who have been forced to flee their homes due to the 11-year-long civil war and who have become 'invisible' to many. Photo: Justin Kernoghan/Trócaire.
The five-time All-Ireland medal winner, Noelle Healy visited Trócaire supported programmes where Irish donations are helping over 8,000 Syrian refugees. Here Noelle is pictured with children living in a refugee camp in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon. Photo: Hazar Al Zahr/Trócaire
Launching Trócaire’s Christmas ‘Gifts of Love’ sisters Rose (1) and (4) from Meath. This year’s gift of winter essentials (€25) is for Syrian children living in harsh conditions in Lebanon camps. The Irish public have bought more than one million life- changing Trócaire gifts since the year 2000 to support some of the world’s most vulnerable families. The gifts can be purchased online at trocaire.org/gifts. Photo: Mark Stedman/Trócaire
