How much charity is too much?
For the third year now, a charity project in Dublin 8 (www.swicn.ie) provides free English conversational classes to people from various countries. The project’s backbones are volunteers from the Failte Isteach programme. One day, the project recruited a very interesting man for the voluntary teacher position. He is a Social welfare officer, who deals with people in difficult life situations every day. Many of them are not from Ireland. One would think that he has enough of commendable work at his day job. What astounded me most about this story is that this man is willing to volunteer after work to improve the lives of people he deals with in his day job. How much charity is too much?
What are the free English classes?
On 29 September 2011, a popular RTE television reporter Anne Cassin visited some unusual projects in Dublin and met volunteers. Capital D programme went behind the scenes of Dublin community projects; to find out more about the show — watch this video from minute 20:00 here.
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| Irish TV programme (www.rte.ie) about free English classes in Dublin 8. Watch online |
What are Third Age and Fáilte Isteach?
Fáilte Isteach is a programme of the Third Age agency in Dublin. “There are many sectors of Irish society in need of welcoming, nurturing and support, particularly our migrants who may struggle with proficiency in English. To tackle this, volunteers throughout the country provide English conversational classes to people of varying national backgrounds, many of whom may be floundering as they try to communicate with the indigenous population” Read more at
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0308/1224313002597.html
More info on SWICN projects:
Homepage: www.swicn.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-West-Inner-City-Network-SWICN/179471358755154