Welcome to GOAL

What is GOAL?

GOAL is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest of the poor. We are a non-denominational, non-governmental and non-political organisation.

Our History:

GOAL was founded in Dublin in 1977 by former sports journalist and Chief Executive, John O’Shea.

Since its inception, GOAL has spent close to €650 million on humanitarian programmes in almost 50 countries. Over 2,000 GOALies and many thousands of local staff have worked in the developing world on GOAL’s behalf and the organisation has responded to every major humanitarian disaster since 1977.

Where are our operations?

GOAL currently has in excess of 100 GOALies based in 11 countries: Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Haiti.

Across GOAL’s fields of operation, 2,500 locally-based staff are employed alongside the GOALies, where together they deliver on a range of humanitarian programmes. GOALies come from all walks of life: accountants, nurses, doctors, nutritionists, logisticians, engineers, administrative personnel, and so on.

GOAL helps to improve the education needs of some of those most in need across the developing world