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Welcome to our website! Skillshare International Ireland is an international development organisation based in Dublin.We work in partnership with locally-based partner organisations in Southern Africa to enable them to achieve their vision and facilitate broader social change in their own communities. For more detailed information about Skillshare International Ireland and our programme, please click here. One of the ways we work is through the placement of international development workers with our partners.



Campaign against the aid cuts



The aid cuts announced in the series of budgets over the past twenty months is very bleak news indeed for the world's poorest people. The cut announced in the December budget of €25 million is the fifth consecutive cut in the overseas aid budget since June 2008. It was cut by €45 million in July 2008, another €15 million in October and by €95 million in February of last year. In the supplementary budget last April another €100 million was taken off the budget.This means that in 2009, aid spending was been cut by €220 million. These cuts will have a devastating impact on the world's poorest and most vulnerable people and are far beyond what would be considered, fair, proportionate or just.



Dóchas, the Irish Association of Non-Govermental Development Organisations, of which Skillshare is a member, is spearheading the campaign against the cuts.



 



^{Shown left, representatives from Dóchas members, including Fran Flood, Director, Skillshare International Ireland, (back centre).}



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Make your voice heard on behalf of the world's poor - here is a sample letter (Word document) addressed to Micheal Martin TD, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Please feel free to use it as you consider appropriate.



Occupational Therapists interested in supporting OT overseas



An initial meeting of this group took place in last year. Please note that a further meeting will take place in the near future - watch this space for further details.



Global Determinants of Health and Development Course



We are please to announce that our second year of the course on global health and development with the Faculty of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin will be delivered in an intensive week between 8-12 February 2010. The course aims to develop students'understanding of global and local issues around health, social inequality and international development that facilitates or limits access to health care. Further details





_{^{Dr Raul Pardinaz-Solis, Skillshare's Development Awareness Officer, addresses the Global Health course, St James' Hospital, Dublin (c)Skillshare}}



Field visit to Swaziland gets national coverage



When 12 people from Irish-based organizations visited Swaziland in October, it generated substantial media coverage about gender-based violence and HIV and AIDS. Read more...



Take action for health, education & human rights



Print out a set of postcards with a campaigning action and other ways you can support Skillshare's work.



Development worker strengthens government campaign to cut HIV/AIDS in Lesotho



When mother-of-three Masintle Motseone finally plucked up the courage to have an HIV test in Lesotho, the nurse revealed her result by blurting out "You've got AIDS." ... read more



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Make a donation to Skillshare's work with People Living With HIV/AIDS, click here



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