GOAL USA
GOAL is an international humanitarian
agency dedicated to the alleviation of suffering amongst the poorest of
the poor. GOAL works towards ensuring that the poorest and most
vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have
access to the fundamental needs and rights of life such as food, water,
shelter, medical attention and primary education. Founded in Dublin,
Ireland, in 1977, has spent more than $1 billion on the delivery of
aid to the poor in more than 50 countries.
For more information on GOAL, our history, objectives and operations, please click here.
If you would like to support GOAL USA, or take part in a fundraising event, please contact GOAL USA by clicking here.
Westport, Connecticut GOAL Mile raises more than $3,000
Now in its sixth year, the annual GOAL Mile charity run in Westport raised more than $3,000 on Christmas morning. The event was won by Walker Marsh, a junior at Staples High School. Fellow Staples’ juniors Patrick Connolly, who also organised the event, and Dylan Hoy tied for second place.
The Westport GOAL Mile has raised more than $13,000 over the past six years for GOAL’s programmes for the poor of the developing world.
GOAL New York Ball raises more than $130,000
GOAL's James Kelly with Unateresa Gormley, Artistic Director
with USG Performing Arts Presenters at the
2011 GOAL New York Ball
GOAL's James Kelly with Unateresa Gormley, Artistic Director
with USG Performing Arts Presenters at the
2011 GOAL New York Ball
More than 300 people packed into Gotham Hall on Friday, November 11th for the 2011 GOAL New York Ball, where more than $130,000 profit was raised for GOAL's programmes for the poor in the developing world.
Guests were treated to a gourmet dinner, live entertainment, a casino and dancing into the small hours.
A special auction on the evening raised enough to allow GOAL build three schools for vulnerable communities in Haiti and Honduras.
Click here to read more about the night.
Crisis in the Horn of Africa
GOAL is continuing to deliver vital aid to thousands of vulnerable families across the Horn of Africa, who are suffering as a result of famine in Somalia. Click here to learn how we are easing their suffering - and how you can help.GOAL Brick Kilns
GOAL brick kilns programme is an integrated urban development programme for migrant families working and living at brick kiln factories in the Kolkata slums.India produces 140 billion bricks a year, the vast majority of which are made at more than 5,000 kilns dotted around Kolkata and throughout the eastern state of West Bengal. An estimated 1.2 million migrant workers, including entire families, mould thousands of bricks at these kilns without suitable sanitation, clean water, or access to health care and education.
With the support of our local partners, GOAL has introduced an education component by providing children with literacy and numeric skills that would otherwise not be available to them.
We are also piloting a literacy and numeric course for adults so they can count the bricks they produce, and check this against payment, to ensure they are being properly remunerated.
Click here to read more about GOAL's work in India
Clooney meets our GOALies in Sudan
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| George Clooney with GOAL's Tommy Corcoaran and Brenda Sinnott |
The US actor and director met GOAL’s Brenda Sinnott and Tommy Corcoran in Agok, in the Abyei region on the border between north and south Sudan. Millions of people voted in the referendum in January to decide whether the south will separate from the north and become a new nation.
“He was very interested in GOAL’s work and what we are doing in the region, and across Sudan as a whole,” said Brenda, who works as an Area Co-ordinator for GOAL in Abyei. “We spoke to him for about 20 minutes before he caught his flight back to the States.”
From Tramore, Co. Waterford, Brenda has been working with GOAL in Sudan after she was kindly granted a two-year leave of absence from Waterford Institute of Technology, where she lectures in economics. Tommy Corcoran is a Logistics Manager for GOAL in the same region and is originally from Carlow Town, but currently lives in Tramore.
GOAL remains the sole provider of healthcare services to more than 700,000 people in its areas of operation in the north and the south of Sudan. With tens of thousands of people returning to the south to vote in the referendum over the past week, the organisation is particularly busy as numbers attending the GOAL clinics have increased significantly.
Some of GOAL's current programmes...
GOAL is currently operational in 13 developing world countries, delivering a variety of emergency relief, and medium to long-term development programmes.Our primary focus is always on providing the essentials of life, such as water and food. Much of what we do, however, involves delivering singular, overlapping or multifaceted longer-term development projects. These come under broader themes like health, hygiene, nutrition, shelter, education, livelihoods and children-at-risk.
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| GOALie John Moore delivering aid in Haiti in early 2010 |
GOAL then agreed an $11m contract with USAID, under the terms of which we are building thousands of transitional shelters, and several hundred latrines and shower and hand-wash blocks.
We currently have 38 temporary settlements under our care in Haiti, and following an outbreak of cholera in Port-au-Prince are striving to mitigate and control the disease in the settlements.
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| A GOAL-constructed school in Puerto Lempira, Honduras |
Again partly with the financial support of USAID, GOAL is implementing a number of projects in Honduras.
These include disaster preparedness and mitigation, the building and renovating of schools, supplying water and sanitation facilities to isolated communities, the repair or putting in place of bridge and roads infrastructure, logistical support for the delivery of vital medicines and equipment, and anti-malaria interventions.