http://www.goal.ie/ Goal RSS Feed - News and Blog en-gb Copyright 2012 Goal. All Rights Reserved. Thu, 17 May 2012 2:29:24 GMT http://www.goal.ie/images/goal-apple.png http://www.goal.ie/ http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/143 GOAL has allocated €250,000 from its emergency disaster fund to alleviate suffering in Niger, one of the poorest countries in Africa.Four million vulnerable people in Niger are facing starvation as a result of a severe drought that has hit the West African nation. Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/142 Part one of this blog by Eoin Lennon (‘Out of the office and into the community’), was published on April 12th. You can read it here. As part of our Livelihoods programme in Malawi, GOAL worked with a local community in Khobe in Nsanje District to construct an irrigation canal that would help open up vast tracts of land to agricultural production. GOAL provided monetary compensation to Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/139 & & GOAL's Maura Lennon pictured with John Boyle and two supporters at the launch of the 2011 Ballintubber GOAL Wed, 09 May 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/141 & &Gordon D'Arcy, Jennie Pierce and Sean O'Brien were on&hand to help us launch the GOAL Ball Tue, 08 May 2012 12:20:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/140 & &Students at Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun, Dublin help launch the GOAL Sports Challenge Tue, 08 May 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/138 Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/137 With one room, two beds, a table, a couple of chairs and some clothes hanging from the rafters, Yvanne Esserve’s home can only be described as sparse. Yet for her and her daughter, it is everything they need.The earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 12th, 2010 destroyed Yvanne’s house and buried her daughter in the rubble. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/136 “While visiting some of GOAL’s project sites in the West Bengal region of India recently, I paid a return visit to the little town of Kalimpong. It was a detour I both needed and wanted to make. I had recently heard that Sr. Declan Fahy from Galway - a good friend of mine, and of GOAL’s - had passed away. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/134 As a finance professional working for GOAL in the developing world, people might be surprised to learn that I spend most of my time in the office. Donor reports, monthly reports, internal controls, budgets, fresh proposals, audits and general financial duties all take a significant toll on my time. Days like the one I spent in Khobe community Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/135 GOAL’s Haiti Country Director, Derek Butler, has issued a warning that another major outbreak of cholera could be imminent in the Caribbean country. “The arrival of the rainy season in Haiti last month has already seen a rapid escalation in the number of cholera cases, with an average of 77 a day recorded across the country during March," Mr. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/133 GOAL has been awarded a grant of €250,000 from the Department of Foreign Affairs to provide water to drought-affected communities in the West Hararghe district of Ethiopia.The project is geared to alleviate the suffering of 142,000 drought victims in the East African country, where millions of hapless people are in need of assistance. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/132 Recently, I found myself standing in a field full of starving men, women and children at a place called Jammam, 60 kilometres from the town of Bunj in Maban County, South Sudan.GOAL has set up a programme there in response to the urgent needs of tens of thousands of refugees who have fled conflict in the nearby Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/127 International aid organisation, GOAL, is to join a network of experts who can be called upon by the British Government in times of international crisis, such as famine, floods and earthquakes.The new facility will mobilise life-saving support from leading businesses and charities in the critical hours after a disaster strikes. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/126 The Department of Foreign Affairs has allocated funding to GOAL of just over €12,454,000 for 2012 under its Multi-Annual Programme Scheme for overseas aid.This funding will support GOAL programmes in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Uganda. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/125 “It was only when the little woman sitting in front of me bowed her head and started to cry that I really understood what she was trying to tell me. & Her name was Marima, and she was part of a new GOAL programme to assist vulnerable women living in the slums of Awassa, a city located in south-central Ethiopia. She told me, through a translator, that her husband was dead Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT