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PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Continued
Development Education
Since 2004, Aidlink’s immersion programme has been central to our development education work. We provide an opportunity for Irish secondary school students to travel to Kenya, Uganda and Ghana and attend school so that they can learn about the culture, traditions, society, as well as the challenges,
of communities living in extreme poverty. Although no immersion trips were carried out in 2021, we continued to engage with students in Ireland, and we thank our partner schools in Ireland, including Blackrock College, St. Mary’s College Rathmines, St. Joseph’s Secondary School Rush and Loreto High School Beaufort, for their continued support.
Despite the cancellation of immersion 2021, students from Blackrock College and Holy Ghost School Kenya, took the initiative
to engage in a ‘remote immersion project’. Through a series of online workshops
and interviews, students in Ireland and
Kenya interacted and learned about each other’s cultures, hobbies, similarities and differences and presented outcomes to senior management and staff in both schools and other key stakeholders. Congratulations to both teams and our thanks to the in-school coordinators Ms. McGuire (Blackrock College) and Mr. Cosmos (Holy Ghost School Kenya).
Aidlink continues to participate in the developmenteducation.ie consortium.
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