A list of all our projects since 1997 can be seen below or downloaded here
Total 1997 to 19 September 2025: Projects 270 Amount spent €2,068,005
Remember that in the developing world, every Euro is worth ten times more. Please have a look at the list further down. Every cent has been accounted for and an amazing amount has been achieved by our loyal membership of less than 500.
PROJECTS FUNDED BY SHARP
2025
Sisters of Mercy Mukuru Promotion Centre Funding for Specialised Neurodivergent Educational and Psychological Assessments and Training for children at Songo Mbele na Masomo in Nairobi, Kenya - 11,000
Action Lesotho Funding for Infant Nutrition Programme - 7,000
The Moldova Project Purchase of backpacks and school supplies for vulnerable children and adolescents in Moldova - 11,000
Aidlink Let Children Learn project: Provision of a latrine, water tank, handwashing and training in a school in Turkana Kenya - 6,324
S.A.F.E. Water project at Mirhazar Elementary School 2, Afghanistan - 8,500
Ethiopiaid Equipment and installation of 14 public water points in Harbe Shisho Keele community in Shebedino Woreda, Sidama Region, Ethiopia - 4,855
Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (SSHJM) Improving access to comprehensive health and rehabilitation services for children and youths with disabilities in Pabo Sub-County, Amuru District, Northern Uganda - 6,000
Total for 2025 to 19 September - 54,6479
2024
Diocese of Mongu, Zambia Funding for toilet block for St Edmunds Secondary School, Nalwei Mission, MONGU District, Western Zambia - 7,000.00
Action Lesotho Funding for Infant Nutrition Programme in Lesotho - 7,000.00
Loreto Rumbek Projects Funding for Hep B Vaccination Programme, Rumbek, South Sudan - 7,000.00
Aidlink - Integrated water and sanitation improvement project at 2 primary schools in Masaka, Uganda - 5,000.00
SERVE in Solidarity Ireland Purchase of medical equipment at the Sumanahalli Ave Maria Leprosy Centre in Bangalore,
India - 5,000.00
Total for 2024 to 12 April - 31,015
2023
Vita Building, training and travel for Poultry and Nutrition Project in Ethiopia - 5,100
Action Lesotho Infant Nutrition Programme in Lesotho, Southern Africa - 7,000
Brighter Communities Worldwide - Purchase of sanitary kits for young girls and women in Kericho County, Kenya - 5,040
Medical Missionaries of Mary - Support for victims of human trafficking in Nairobi, Kenya - 7,000
SSHJM, Bauleni Special Needs Project - Supports for children with special needs in Lusaka, Zambia - 6,000
Medical Missionaries of Mary - Maternal and Child Health Training of Staff at Hospital, Ebonyi State, Nigeria - 3,934
Total grants paid 2023 - 34,074
2022
St. John Baptist Girls Secondary and Vocational School - Repairing earthquake damage to school in Masaka, Uganda - €6,700
Medical Missionaries of Mary Sonography equipment and training in medical sonography at St. Mary’s Medical Centre, Eldoret, Kenya - €6,700
Vita- Sustainable water maintenance and community hygiene project in South Gonder, Ethiopia - €8,200
Sisters of the Infant Jesus - Equipment and furniture for school in Yaounde, Cameroon - €8,000
Irish Committee for Dr. Graham’s Homes: Assistance towards: Education of children in secondary schools; Supporting students to complete third level courses; and Expansion of music school project in Kalimpong, North East India - €10,000
Catholic Diocese of Mongu, Zambia - Funding for kitchen/dining hall for St Edmunds Secondary School, Nalwei Mission, MONGU District, Western Zambia - €12,000
Support Afghan Further Education (SAFE): Provision of a 150m dip well, pipe, solar panel, water pump and reservoir at Mirazar School, Afghanistan - 7,200.00
Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT): Funding towards upgrading of laboratory services at Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital and Services Centre, Nepal - 4,000.00
Mao Hostel and College, Tanzania - Funding for roofing the classrooms at Mao Hostel and College, Hanang District, Northern Tanzania - 10,800.00
Total Expenditure 2022 - €73,600.00
2021
SERVE in Solidarity Ireland - Renovate and enhance an operating theatre and 12 bed post-op ward/auxiliary rooms at a health centre in the rural village of Songa Lumueno in the Democratic Republic of Congo €5,000.00
Faith in Action - Turkwel - Construction of a kitchen and storeroom adjacent to the new Maternity Unit, Kalemanyung, Turkwel Parish, Northern Kenya - €8,021.00
Vita - Sustainable water maintenance and community hygiene project in South Gonder, Ethiopia - €7,021.00
Sisters of the Infant Jesus - Equipment and furniture for school in Yaounde, Cameroon - €7,500.00
SMA, Tanzania - Completion of access road to the Tanga Home in Mwanza, Tanzania where albino children are housed, to enable them to be safely transported to and from school - €8,000.00
LSU Mission, Haiti - Purchase of 12 computers for secondary school in Delmas, Port-au-Prince - €4,000.00
ADAPT Kerry - Refurbishment of two apartments at ADAPT Kerry Women's refuge - €12,000.00
Zimbabwe Rural Development Trust - Construction of a teacher’s cottage for Secondary School, Zimbabwe - €5,000.00
Tir na nÓg Orphanage, Tanzania - Finishings and decorations for Cottage A at Tir na nÓg Orphanage - €5,000.00
Irish Red Cross Society - Funding to assist those entering the State via the Irish Humanitarian Admissions - €5,000.00
Brighter Communities Worldwide - Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Programme across communities in Kericho County, Kenya - €8,000.00
SSHJM, Bauleni Special Needs Project - Access to quality education/rehabilitation in community and family settings for children with disabilities in the rural zones of Chifwema, Chilambila and Kabweza, in and around Lusaka, Zambia - €7,000.00
Aidlink School Feeding Project in Turkana, Kenya - €8,500.00
Total Expenditure 2021 - €90,042.00
2020
Sisters of the Infant Jesus: Classroom equipment in Yaounde, Cameroon - €10,000
Medical Missionaries of Mary Mukuru Health Centre: Malnutrition project in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum, Nairobi, Kenya - €7,709
Vita: Community Hygiene Project for disease prevention, Zoba Debub, Eritrea - €5,000
Mothers First: Nutrition for malnourished pregnant mothers, Varanasi, northern India - €6,528
Aidlink: Installation of water tanks in three public primary schools in Turkana County, Kenya - €8,678
Brighter Communities Worldwide: Menstrual health education programme for girls and women, including prevention of exploitation by traffickers in Kericho County, Kenya under Covid-19 restrictions - €13,500
Catholic Diocese of Mongu, Zambia: Funding for the salary of 2 teachers for a year in a newly established Primary School in the remote village of Seembwa - €5,000
Medical Missionaries of Mary: Rescue, rehabilitation and support for victims of human trafficking in Nairobi, Kenya - €16,868
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Ethiopia: Blended Learning Project to improve educational opportunities for marginalized students in Addis Ababa - €9,850
Total to 1 January to 31 Dec 2020 - €83,133
2019
Mercy Refugee Network: Transport costs (for education) for Asylum Seekers students travelling from their accommodation in Glanmire to the Cork. - €437
Aidlink: Return to education costs for 30 out-of-school adults and young people in Turkana, Kenya - €8,650
Vita: Provision of cooking stoves for 500 rural families n the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region, Ethiopia - €6,000
Development Pamoja Ltd: Funding for the purchase of physiotherapy equipment for use in the Medical Centre in Sarambei, Kenya - €5,000
Rise Rwanda: towards the provision of microfinance for women in rural Rwanda (Project phase 2) - €4,000
Community to Community Partners in Learning CLG (PiL): to establish a storage unit for Tororo Groundnuts Growers Co-operative on 6 acres in Tororo Town, Uganda – €7,900
MECPATHS: anti-trafficking project for educating hotel staff on potential exploitation of children - €1,480
Gorey Malawi Health Partnership: To improve the management of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in rural Malawai and support non physician health workers - €7,000
Infant Jesus Sisters, Drishane (Maternity Unit in Cameroon): Provision of incubators and Phototherapy Unit in Maternity Unit - €10,000
Dr. Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong, India: Contribution to building costs for essential upgrading works to school for poor children and orphans - €10,000
St. John Baptist School, Masaka District, Uganda: Beds for girls’ dormitory – €4,290
Diocese of Mongu, Western Zambia: Completion of a Primary School for 250 children in the village of Seembwa and a salary for a newly qualified Teacher - €15,000
MMM, Kenya: Rescue and rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse (23 girls and women) - €12,420
2019: Total to 31 Dec - €92,177
2018
Medical Missionaries of Mary, Nairobi, Kenya: Provision of a hut for a slum dwelling family - €4,000
Montfortan Fathers, Haiti: Construction of two classrooms - $20,000 USD (approx. €16,000)
Daughters of Charity, Bulbula, Ethiopia: Bore Well and Irrigation System - €16,957
RSCF (Rwamagana School Children’s Fund, now called Rise Rwanda): Microfinance for women - €3,000
Lwannunda Community Development Initiatives (LCDI), Masaka, Uganda: School expenses and Medical expenses - €5,000
Vita Ethiopia (Amhara): Improvement of agriculture via potato production - €5,000
Dr. Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong, India: Improvement works to kindergarten - €10,000
ASHDI, Bong County, Liberia: To purchase tools, piglets, chicks, support for transportation & trainers - €9,000
Infant Jesus Sisters, Cameroon: Delivery Tables for Maternity Unit - €6,000
Catholic Missionary Diocese of Mongu, Zambia: Construction of Classroom Block €10,000
Brighter Communities Worldwide: Community development - €10,000
Cork Sick Poor Society: Aid to needy families - €4000
2018: Total to 31 Dec - €98,957
2017
Nepal Leprosy Trust: Support to construct a community meeting hall to facilitate meetings of the Self-Help Group in Khoksikhola village in Nepal: €2,680
Aidlink: Construction of girl-friendly latrine, Uganda - €8,704
The Moldova Project: Materials to enable members of the local community to repair badly damaged houses to give children living in extreme poverty in the Republic of Moldova a better quality of life - €12,000
Vita: For repair of eight hand pumps in the Debub Region of Eritrea, to establish community plans for maintenance of the pumps and training of community pump caretakers - €8,980
Medical Missionaries of Mary: Rehabilitatation of 24 victims of human trafficking and support resources - €16,000
Zimbabwe Rural Development Trust (Fr. Tim Peacock): Accomodation for 4 teachers in rural school - €15,000
Catholic Missionary Diocese of Mongu, Zambia: Staff toilet and cesspit as part of school building project - €10,000
Aidlink, Uganda: Support to construct a 30,000lt rain water harvesting tank and hygiene and sanitation training in Karamoja, Uganda - €7,793
Mercy Refugee Network, Cork: To assist asylum seekers in Direct Provision and refugees in Cork City and surrounding areas by providing travel expenses to attend classes in English - €1,800
Catholic Parish of Houli, Taiwan: To assist in the payment of fees and books, etc. for two members of Aborigine families in Houli, Taiwan - €400
The Society of African Missions (on behalf of the Vicariate of Kontagora, Niger State, Nigeria): Provision of four prosthetic legs - €5,000
Helping Babies Breathe, Sudan: Providing rural midwives with resuscitation equipment for infants - €10,000.
2017: Total to 31 Dec - €84,857
2016
IDEALS, Gaza: Contribution to enable continuous testing and rectification of contaminated water supplies: €10,000
Chimteka Children Support, Malawi: Purchase of furniture for maternity unit - €10,000
Medical Missionaries of Mary, Kenya: Funding for countering human trafficking - €9,760
SMA, Zambia: Essential security works to enable opening of newly constructed maternity hospital - €7,140
Varanasi Children’s Hospital, India: Continuation of community feeding scheme for malnourished children - €10,000
Chimteka Children Support, Malawi: Shortfall of funds to complete Maternity Unit in Chimteka - €5,000
Le Korsa, Senegal: Funding for the delivery of medical supplies to Fann Hospital in Dakar, Senegal - €14,200
Mercy Refugee Network, Cork: Funding to subsidise travel costs for asylum seekers attending classes in Cork City from December 2016 to June 2017 – €1,400
ASHDI, Bong County, Liberia: Funding of hand pumps for water - €4,650
Infant Jesus Sisters, Cameroon: Funding of equipment in new extension to Health Centre in Ekounou, Yaounde, Cameroon - €6,000
Mongu Project, Zambia: Funding of school equipment and furnishings: €6,000
SERVE in Solidarity Ireland: Association of People with Disability project, Bangalore, India. Funding for renovation work in school classrooms - €5,000
Total for 2016 - €89,150
2015
Ashdi, Bong County, Liberia: Ebola campaign, including health education and food security for victims’ families - €13,000
Daughters of Wisdom, Manilla, Philippines: Rehousing of typhoon victims - €9,306
Aidlink, Waikiso District, Uganda: Nutrition, food security for 50 families - €10,613
Daughters of Charity, V de P, Thigia, Kenya: Purchase of goats - €3,000
The Infant Jesus Sisters Congregation, Yaunda, Cameroon: Contribution to construction of clinic - €15,000
Daughters of Charity V de P, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Education/capacity building, including HIV awareness - €4,959
Chimteka Children Support, Malawi: Contribution to construction of Maternity Unit - €10,000
Irish Committee for Dr. Graham’s Homes, India: Education Support for poor children- €10,000
Zimbabwe Rural Development Trust: Provision of living accommodation for teaching staff in remote school - €10,000
SAFE, Afghanistan: Extension of beekeeping project - €8,700
Mongu, Zambia: Water supply and toilets for school in remote area - €10,000
Aidlink, Uganda: Contribution to Provision of 8 wells - €10,000
Total for 2015 - €104,578
2014
Aidlink: To improve water and sanitation facilities and provide hygiene training for 400 primary school children in Wakiso District, Uganda - €9006
Supporting Life Institute, UCC: To complete internal renovations to the Supporting Life Institute, to enable services to the rural poor, Muzuzu, Northern Malawi - €10,000
VMM Ireland: Provision of essential medicines for the Palliative Care Centre, Salima District, Malawi, for one year - €8,085
SAFE: Training in beekeeping in 3 villages in in Saighan District, Afghanistan - €6,100
Development Pomoja Ltd: Contribution to enable building a medical clinic/dispensary in Sarambei Village, Nakuru County, Kenya - €4,125
ASHDI: Assistance with programme to fight against Ebola in Bong County, Liberia, including community education and help to victims and their families - €15,000
Aidlink: Enabling of Community Development Programme, including provision of 30 training kits and 30 bicycles for the trainers in Kibaale District, Uganda - €10,110
Hope Foundation: Purchase of ventilator for the Hope Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India - €11,828
SERVE: To provide a new deep well Phamm Community, Muvamba Mission, Southern Mozambique - €4,156
Kidane Meheret Childrens’ Home: Provision of food for 60 vulnerable children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - €10,000
Total for 2014 - €88,410
2012/2013
Aidlink, Ireland: Provision of clean water and safe sanitation for a primary school in Uganda. - €10,000
S.A.F.E., Afghanistan: Water scheme and hygiene training for two villages. - €10,000
Ansary Foundation, Bangladesh: Educational support, provision of materials and medical care for children of the poor. - €10,350
Aidlink, Ireland: Provision of community water facilities in Uganda. - €10,000
A.S.H.D.I., Liberia: Provision of water pumps - €13,000
Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Help with construction work to expand family resource centre providing educational support and nutrition to disadvantaged families. - €20,000
Serve: New workshop/classroom for Young Africa, Zimbabwe (contribution) - €4,562
Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation: Nutrition and blankets for home for street children - €10,000
Irish Committee for Dr. Graham’s Homes: Restoration of children’s house following earthquake and educational support for children - €20,000
Daughters of Charity: Construction of cowshed, Thigio, Northern Kenya - €2,200
Shalom Centre for Conflict Resolution: Solar panels for inter-ethnic schools - €10,000
SAFE: Completion works to clinic in Shahidan, Afghanistan - €4,550
RAGE&T: Rainwater harvesting for girls school in Tanzania - €4,600
Aidlink, Ireland: Provision of clean water and sanitation facilities in two girls schools on Kibaale, Uganda - €9526
Ansary Foundation, Bangladesh: Educational material and equipment and dental and health checkup for children - € 12,000
A.S.H.D.I., Bong County, Liberia: Educational materials, and repair of school buildings - €10,000
Wallaroo Playschool, Cork: Developmental activity programmes for children living in Direct Provision Centres for Asylum Seekers - € 10,000
Zimbabwe Rural development Trust: Construction of new Double Classroom block for Lombora Secondary School, Zimbabwe - €15,000
Aidlink Ireland: Increased food security, nutrition and incomes among 200 rural poor subsistence farming households through the promotion of improved farming practices and increased banana, cassava, vegetable and cereal production in Wakiso District, Uganda - €9,042
Irish Committee for Dr. Graham’s Homes: Support for students coming from the Ghandi Ashram School in Kalimpong, North East India, for children of the poorest of the poor to enable them to complete their education - - € 17,282
Completion of remedial works to girls’ boarding house in Dr. Graham’s Homes, which was severely damaged in an earthquake in 2011- € 11,808
Varanasi Children's Hospital: Community based programme for treatment of malnutrition in young children at risk of death - €10,000
Daughters of Charity Kindergarten & Women in Development Centre, Bonga, Ethiopia: Repair and improvement works to school - €15, 657
Helping Babies Breathe: Purchase of neonatal resuscitation kits for 500 birth attendants in rural Sudan - €10,000
Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation: Extension and remedial works to halfway house for street children and support for key staff member - €19,750
Total for 2012/2013 - €269,327
2011
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Kerry and Cork: Support to families. - €30,000
T.O.I.L., Nangwa, Tanzania: Donation towards building a library facility for girls’ school - €6,986
A.S.H.D.I., Bong County, Liberia: Construction of log bridges and hand pumps. - €13,090
AIDLINK, Turkana, Kenya: Donation towards Early Childhood Development and Skills Capacity Building for Nursery Teachers, Parents and Management Committees Project. - €4,000
MMM, Choloma, Honduras: Donation towards the Health Education part of the Casa Visitation Project. - €8,000
Varanasi Childrens Project, Varanasi, India: Medical Care for street children. - €5,000
The HOPE Foundation, India: Donation towards the provision of homeopathic support service to the crisis intervention project for street children. - €4,500.00
S.A.F.E. Afghanistan: Donation towards Micro Hydro Power Project, Begal Valley - €15,000
Irish Committee for Dr. Graham’s Homes, Darjeeling District, N.E. India: Donation towards completion of rainwater harvesting project and the educational support of 10 children attending Gandhi Ashram School - €13,145
AIDLINK, Turkana, Kenya: Donation towards the purchase of four greenhouses for demonstration farms as part of the integrated food security programme. - €9,180
MMM, Kenya: Food for children during famine in the Horn of Africa - €15,000
St Francis Family Helper Programme, Uganda: Donation towards the furnishing of classrooms and therapy room, renovation of a staff house and student kitchen . - €8,500
Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation, Darjeeling, India: Donation towards the cost of furniture for girl’s house extension, the counselling room, computers, utensils for the boys’ halfway house and food and nutrition for the girls’ halfway house and the drop-in centre. - €17,100
Mukuro KWA Njenga Community Based Health Care, Nairobi Kenya: Financial Support for Dispensary in large slum and medical costs of family affected by human trafficking. - €9,689
Irish Committee for Dr. Graham’s Homes, Darjeeling District, N.E. India: Donation towards cost of emergency restoration of damaged buildings at the Gandhi Ashram School following 6.9 richter scale earthquake on 18 September 2011. - €20,000
Total for 2011 - €179,190
2010
Mukuro KWA Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya: Support for dispensary for slum residents - €10,000
Haven Partnership, Haiti: Sponsorship for four volunteers working to build temporary accommodation for earthquake survivors - €8,000
ASHDI, Bong County, Liberia: Completion of construction of two schools and three midwife houses. - €10,000
Dr. Graham’s Homes, India: Rainwater harvesting and distribution system. - €8,000
Daughters of Charity, Kenya: Construction of irrigation system- €4,675
Tomorrow’s Child Trust, Zambia: Construction of hostel for girls’ school. - €15,000
SAFE, Afghanistan: Training of healthcare workers. - €5,000
Ansary Foundation, Bangladesh: Extension to school and provision of educational requisites. - €5,000
De Porres Trust, West Indies: Purchase of site for soup kitchen. - €3,000
Comber Romanian Orphanage Appeal: Provision of wheelchair equipment. - €4,000
Aidlink, Ireland: Contribution of agricultural project in Kibaale district, Uganda. - €10,000
Malawi Orphan Appeal: Supplementary food programme - €5,000
Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation: Extension to girls’ halfway house, Darjeeling. - €12,000
O.R.M. Outreach, Moldova: Provision of sanitary facilities in orphanage. - €10,000
Total for 2010 - €109,675
2009
Ansary Foundation, Bangladesh: New classrooms and educational necessities for children living at subsistence level - €10,650
AIDLINK, Kenya: Relief food programme in Turkana desert - €10,000
De Porres Trust, West Indies: Provision of basic necessities for destitute and unemployable people and prisoners - €10,000
Partners in Learning, Uganda: Provision of training to enable health education of communities - €4,000
SAFE, Sayghan District, Afghanistan: Sponsorship for training 20 local women as midwives in an area with the highest maternal death rates in the world - €10,000
Edith Wilkins Foundation, Darjeeling, India: Completion of halfway house for street children - €20,000
Malawi Orphan Appeal Fund: Completion and fit-out of Vocational Education building for AIDS orphans - €12,000
Christ the King Church, Kibera, Kenya: Leadership training and education for slum residents - €10,000
Bashanet Health Centre, Tanzania: Purchase of laboratory equipment for a small hospital serving a population of 100,000 people - €3.500
ASHDI, Bong County, Liberia: Funding of in service training programme for primary school teachers - €10,000
Irish Committee for Dr. Graham’s Homes, West Bengal, India: Upgrading of sanitation and water facilities in school building- €2,600
Tomorrow’s Child Trust, Luwingu, Zambia: Finishing building and providing furniture for new classrooms - €7,000
Mercy Thusanang Care Group, Winterveldt, South Africa: Donation to feeding scheme for 739 families - €5,000
Wallaroo Playschool, Cork: Support and development opportunities for children retained for extended periods in immigrant holding centre - €18,000
Sullane Haven Project, Macroom, Co. Cork: Enabling the repatriation from Britain of two elderly Irish emigrants - €7,000
Assistance to Elderly: Once off assistance to elderly mentally ill man (purchase of cooker) who failed to co-operate with usual sources - €350
Total for 2009 - €140,100
2007/2008
Associacao de Apoio & Articulacao da Communade Missionaro de Mburanas, Brazil: Provision of water cisterns for families in semi desert area - €6,000
AIDLINK, Uganda: Sustainable Improved Livelihood of marginalised women through the establishment of sustainable organic agriculture. - €10,500
Medical Missionaries of Mary, Mukuru, Kenya: Community based healthcare project for AIDS victims - €10,000
Mosongila Village Women’s Development Project Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, Sierra Leone West Africa. Construction of a store to keep the harvest, farm tools and equipment safe. - €5,000
Small Change Project, Malawi: Furniture, equipment, teaching aids and cooking utensils for day centre for AIDS orphans - €5,000
Malawi Orphan Appeal Fund: Building of Vocational Education facility for AIDS orphans - €3,000
Fondacioni Quedra Kristiane Fushe–Arrez, Northern Albania: Equipment for Medical Centre - €3,400
Ansary Foundation Bangladesh: Repair of flood damage to school and replacement of school furniture destroyed in floods - €8,100
SAAS, Mombasa Kenya: Purchase of a traditional style house as a half-way house to accommodate 15 clients from the Kongowea slum to take part in an aftercare programme. - €15,000
Niall Mellon Project Imizamu, Yethu, Capetown SA: House for shanty dwellers - €3,000
SAFE, Kajab Valley, Afghanistan: Sponsorship for training 5 local women as midwives in an area with the highest maternal death rates in the world - €7,300
Edith Wilkins Foundation, Darjeeling, India: Refurbishment of 2 houses to improve conditions for street children in halfway accommodation - €10,000
De Porres Trust, St Vincents, Carribean: Outreach programme for general relief of situations of extreme poverty - €6,000
ASHDI, Bong County, Liberia: Construction of building and in service training of elementary teachers - €10,000
Cicadesco Ngo, Trujillo, Peru: Rotating credit union type loan fund for women living in shantytown - €10,000
Protea Project, Intshayelo, South Africa: HIV/AIDS education programme for primary schools - €5,000
Malithuso High School, Pretoria, South Africa: Funding towards construction of toilets for girls school - €3,300
Leratong Hospice, Pretoria, South Africa: Furniture and equipment for hospice preschool - €5,000
Friends of Kitui, Kenya: Funding towards building secondary school - €10,000
Total for 2007/2008 - €135,600
2006
The Development Education Network-Liberia, Gbarnga (Miriam T. O’Brien); Shelter assistance for returnees. - €3,600
Foundation of Life Women’s Centre, ThailandSr Michelle Lopez, (via Brid Dunne); Medical assistance for women and girls working in the sex tourist industry. - €3,000
Malawi Orphan Appeal Fund (Maggie Blackley); Food supplement for smaller children. - €3,425
Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, Mosongilia Village Women’s Development Project: (Sister Teresa McKeon) To purchase tools, seeds and medicines in order to provide food security.- €1,500
Edith Wilkins Street Children Foundation, India. (Leo McMahon, Chairman). Clinic/Sick bay/ Hygiene/ Supplementary feeding.- €7,500
Ansary Foundation, Bangladesh. (Dr Habib): To build classrooms, and run school. - €6,000
Holy Family Sisters, Malithuso High School, P.O. Box 187, Mapoteng 250, Lesotho. (Sr.Theresia Selete): To complete the building of 3 classrooms. - €3,000
The Hope Foundation (Viki Mulhall): Primary Health Care Programme in South Kolkata, West Bengal, India. - €3,000
S.A.F.E.: (Terence O’Malley): Establishment of 3 tented primary schools in district Mansehra in NWFP of Pakistan. - €3,000
Aidlink (on behalf of REEP): Pilot Bee-keeping project to improve the quality of life of those families suffering from HIV/AIDS in Busia, Kenya - €4,000
De Porres Trust. (Fr. Jim Candon, O.P.): To maintain current outreach community support. - €5,000
Langsyde School, South Africa (Sr. Melanie O’Connor c/o Pat O’Mahony): A reading library for the school. - €3,000
Niall Mellon Township Challenge (Peadar Scannell): Towards building a new township in Cape flats. €3,000
Total for 2006 - €52,025
2005
Holy Family Youth Caregivers and Langsyde Orphans, South Africa, Sr. Melanie O’Connor: To complete the building of a Care Centre. - €9,200
Aidlink: Replace rusted pipes with plastic pipes in the wards of Nkozi Hospital, Mpigi District, Uganda. - €7,250
Volunteers in Irish Veterinary Assistance (VIVA): ‘Basic animal husbandry manual’ for training. - €2,500
Ansary Foundation, Bangladesh, Dr Habib Millat: Education of 64 students at MSA Junior School, Sirajgong district. - €1,000
Catholic Church (Don Bosco), Assam, India: Educational Fund for Adibasi students from schooling till job placement. - €7,500
Society of St. Vincent de Paul (Grange): Refurbishment of semi derelict house for elderly person. - €5,000
Kitale Aids Programme, Medical Missionaries of Mary, Kenya (Sr. Mary Dunne: To purchase drugs for treating opportunistic infections. - €5,000
Aidlink, on behalf of Caritas MADDO. To promote sustainable methods of agriculture and to improve the food security situation in households in Masaka, Uganda. - €5,000
Medical Missionaries of Mary, (Mary O Malley, MMM): To sponsor one young man in Kenya through a 2 year Social Studies course. - €600
Total for 2005 - €43,050
2004
Aidlink, Kachonga Health Centre, Mbale, Uganda - towards completion of the health centre.- €5,099
Tomorrow’s Child Trust: Women in Need Project, Cape Town, South Africa - €2,970
Community Animation Centre, Choyghoria, Bongaon, India (sdb): €5,000
Little Sisters of the Assumption: Community Project, Pasay City, Phillipines - €4,000
Aidlink: Food security at St. Kizito Mbuye-Kiteredde Primary School orphanage, Kampala, Uganda. - €7,000
St Mary’s Maternity Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan, (Sr. Mary Scullion): €10,000
Infant/Toddler Parent Education Program for disadvantaged African/American Community, Jonestown Learning Centre, Mississippi. (Sisters of the Holy Names): - €2,000
Niall Mellon Township Challenge, Capetown, South Africa - €4,000
Aidlink: Construction of a Community Dispensary at Kasunguni, Kitui, Kenya. - €8,197
The De Porres Trust, St Vincent, West Indies (Fr Candon, O.P.): Community support. - €6,130
The Holy Spirit Sisters, Limulunga, Zambia via Tomorrow’s Child Trust: Infants at risk of Malnutrition (Sr Janet Nall, Director). - €2,890
S.A.F.E. (Support for Afghan Further Education): Construction of Mirazar Middle School and Girls Education (Terence G.K. O’Malley, Chairman). - €3,500
Medical Missionaries of Mary: Kitale Aids Project –Sr. Mary Dunne - €5,000
St. Andrews Biikira Health Centre, Uganda: Provision of Solar System. - €7,054
Total for 2004 - €72,840
2003
Action Aid Ireland : equipment for Bulera Health Unit, Uganda - €3,000
Limulunga Project of Hope: social and feeding programme for destitute elderly, Western Zambia - €3,000
Aidlink Project: solar system in the Children’s ward, St. Andrew’s Health Centre, Biikira Parish, Rakai District, Uganda - €3,114
Architecture Students, UCD, Into Africa Project: capital costs to rebuild a school in Bahati, Kenya - €1,105
Sr. Mary Roe, RSCJ, Kyamulsausala School, Uganda - to pay an agricultural labourer for one year and to buy seeds, fruit trees and garden tools. - €1,000
Sr. Mary Roe, RSCJ, Kyamulsausala School, Uganda: contribution towards school fees (equivalent of sending 10 children to school for a year). - €1,000
NASC: The Irish Immigrant Support Centre - €5,000
Total for 2003 - €17,219
1997 - 2002
Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM)– Turkana, Kenya: Building of huts for workers at a refugee camp and the establishment of a small industry making and selling baskets. - £1,200 (1997) and £2,000 (2000)
MMM – Kitovu, Uganda: Purchase of equipment and a replacement generator for a small rural hospital, which among other services deals with problems of malnourishment. - £1,500 (2000) and £1,200 (2001)
MMM – Capim Grosso, Brazil: Child Health Development and Adult Literacy Project. Purchase of cooking equipment and payment of the salaries of 6 monitors for one year. - £3,000
GOAL – Maputo, Mozambique: Building of two small schools for street children. - £4,799
Trocaire – Sudan: Providing ox ploughs for rural community. - £7,819
Housing Project, Emlaghmore, Co. Kerry: provision of enabling finance to attract Dept of Environment grant to build a house for elderly person - £3,000
The Edith Wilkins Hope Foundation, Calcutta: Establishment of night shelter for 50 children. - £5,000
Jesuit Refugee Service, Gbarnga, Liberia: Provision of materials for construction of school for war refugees. - £8,000 (1999) and £2,000 (2001)
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, South Parish, Cork: Establishment of social club for the elderly. - £2,000
St. Martin’s Clinic, Chikwawa, Malawi: Contribution to cost of replacing outreach vehicle. - £4,000
Small Bronze memorial to Famine Victims (as per Constitution): Located near Staff Canteen, CUH. - £500
Sisters of Mercy School, Trujillo, Peru: Purchase of schoolbooks for children living in extreme poverty in Shantytown. - £3,000
Kirogwe Teachers College, Tanzania: Provision of training in education/health related matters for people of the region.- £4,500
Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, Uganda: SHARP contributions paid for the training of one young male resident as a teacher for the camp, and three young ladies as nurses. Contributions paid for year two nursing training. -£3,000 (2000), £1,700 (2001) and €2158 (2002)
Coiste Tithe Uibh Laoire, Ballingeary: Housing for an older person.- €8888
Divine Word Missionaries, Cochabamba, Bolivia: Equipment for general health education.- €1,000
Medical Missionaries of Mary, Kitale, Kenya: Aids Project - €5,000
Total for 1997 to 2002 - €86,907