Intl Year of Water Cooperation
Setting Goals for a Better Ireland in a New World Event
Judith Turbyne, director of Progressio Ireland, attended an event that was jointly organised by Dóchas, The Wheel and Claiming our Future on April 20th, and that designed to bring Irish citizens together to talk about the future they want. After such a long grey and rainy winter it was hard to give up a sunny ...
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Director’s Update – Enough Food for Everyone IF
We live in an incredible age where there seems to be so much potential to make things happen. The human capacity to create new and ever more amazing technologies is astounding. Yet we have not been able to create a just food system where hunger begins to become a thing of the past. An estimated ...
Continue ReadingSeason’s Greetings from Progressio Ireland
Season’s Greetings Find out more about our work on the Haitian-Dominican Border. Find out more about our Liquapod water bottle.
Continue ReadingWorking with Misean Cara
We are very excited to announce that we will be working more closely with Misean Cara for the next while. Misean Cara is the Irish organisation that supports the development work of missionaries around the world. It currently has 89 members and Misean Cara works to support this membership both financially and through the provision of advice, ...
Continue ReadingDirector’s Update – The Future We Want?
Today is the start of Rio+20. In Progressio Ireland we have been building towards this moment for many months. We hoped that it would be a critical moment in terms of uniting world leaders behind a global commitment to the principles of sustainable development. We know that the need to do this is urgent. As ...
Continue ReadingLets make some noise about the Climate Law
I was just finishing my toast and butter at breakfast this morning, when the announcement from Minister for Environment, Phil Hogan, almost made me choke on the crumbs. After clear statements by the government on many occasions that the climate bill was still on track, it appears that a massive and unwelcome u-turn might be under-way. ...
Continue ReadingKeeping our Climate Change Commitments
We are increasingly seeing the impacts on climate change in many of the countries we work. Central America is a great example of that. A key role for us as concerned citizens it to do our personal bit to try and limit our carbon footprint. But this is a big global issue, and it is ...
Continue ReadingThe rain came down …
And the floods came up … again. The latest storm that is slowly passing over the Central American isthmus may be no Hurricane Mitch. But the rivers are rising, and the destructive power of raging water has again been seen in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. This is not just another extreme weather ...
Continue ReadingZimbabwe and Daily Obstacles
Zimbabwe and Daily Obstacles It has been a busy few months since my last update. The highlight was my visit to Zimbabwe where, accompanied by the Zimbabwe office staff (who are a wonderful group of people), I had the pleasure of visiting our Irish Aid supported work on the ground. I came back refreshed and ...
Continue ReadingLiving More Simply
Living More Simply It was inspiring to sit and listen to Mary Robinson speak on the issue of climate justice. Climate justice is, she says, about ensuring that human rights and development are linked. All peoples of the worlds have a “right to development.” However, to allow them to exercise that right, while at the ...
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