http://www.goal.ie/ Goal Blog en-gb Copyright 2012 Goal. All Rights Reserved. Thu, 17 May 2012 2:29:53 GMT http://www.goal.ie/images/goal-apple.png http://www.goal.ie/ 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/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/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/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 http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/115   Children inside their new GOAL-built shelter in Haiti Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/113   Two women taking part in GOAL's REFLECT Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/106    Women and children Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/102 “One night eight years ago, I found myself lying on a bed in Burundi, East Africa, listening to mortars pass overhead and watching arcs of tracer fire light up the night sky. Suddenly, my possessions jumped off the shelves, as a small earthquake rippled through Kenya’s Rift Valley. It was my first night as a humanitarian aid worker.  Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/99   GOAL's Darren Hanniffy at the refugee Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/71   Young children often have to miss school lessons to collect Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:00:00 IST http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/68 My name is Tyche Hofman, and this is my first time blogging for GOAL. I’m Dutch and have been active in the field of development since 2001, living all over Asia and currently in Uganda.   Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/61   Students at the GOAL-supported Silver Plate school in the Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:00:00 GMT