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🏠The #BooklessBookclub is back... Join us to ta 🏠The #BooklessBookclub is back... Join us to talk about: #home, #homelessness and the global refugee crisis. The Bookless Bookclub will take place on Zoom and will be facilitated by experienced community workers, Francine Blaché-Breen and Annette Patton, who have previously led Bookless Bookclubs about gender inequality in partnership with Think Equality Donegal in 2022 and the #blacklivesmatter movement in 2021. Using music, visual art and short film, this Club creates a safe and stimulating space for learning and discussion. With the #MICA crisis in Donegal, the national housing crisis, and a global refugee crisis, this is an important topic to discuss together at this time. To join, register today at Eventbrite via changemakers.ie. Link in the comments below. We ask that you sign up to all four workshops which take place on Wednesday evenings (see dates on image), 7pm to 9pm. Be sure to share with any friends who might be interested, even if they aren't living in Donegal currently. #changemakersdonegal #donegal #booklessbookclub #IAmAChangemaker
🍌Happy Friday. #Fairtrade Fortnight is approach 🍌Happy Friday. #Fairtrade Fortnight is approaching from 27 February to 12 March. We are in touch with a number of towns and villages and schools to make plans to raise awareness of Fairtrade. We are seeking coffee-loving #volunteers to join Committees in Buncrana, Ballyliffin and Inishowen to help with a bid to make these towns and villages Fairtrade Zones. Upon a successful bid process, these places will join Dunfanaghy, Carndonagh, Donegal Town and Moville/Greencastle on the list of towns with Fairtrade status in Donegal. Join us in spreading a simple message.. Making the small switch to Fairtrade supports producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved food and the planet. Email changemakers@inishowen.ie if you'd like to get involved! #BeFairDoSustainable #changemakersdonegal #FairtradeFortnight
🎼As we approach Imbolc and the first national h 🎼As we approach Imbolc and the first national holiday to recognise Brigid, we are pleased to recommend an upcoming musical performance by Kate O'Callaghan Project Worker at ChangeMakers Donegal on Monday 6 February 2023. Small Behaviours is a song cycle inspired by Kate O’Callaghan’s great-grand aunt and her involvement in the 1916 Rising and War of Independence. Working with creative facilitator, Seamus Devenny, and the Donegal Camerata String Quintet directed by Victor Yelamo, this has been a wonderful opportunity for Kate O’Callaghan to engage in a process that has been both personal and commemorative. The work is very much a reflection on the seemingly ‘small behaviours’ of ordinary women, which ultimately affected far-reaching social change over time. When? Monday 6 February 2023 at 7pm (bank holiday) Links to Donegal Live and 🎟️ Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny in the comments below.
''Let us endeavour, together, in our diverse world ''Let us endeavour, together, in our diverse world, beginning again in Africa, seek to build such a cooperative, caring and non-exploitative global civilisation.'' - President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins speaking in Dakar, Senegal, 25 January 2023
Happy New Year everyone! In partnership with Child Happy New Year everyone! In partnership with Children in Crossfire, we are pleased to offer Vision 2030, a free two-day training on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 February 2023. Interested? Email changemakers@inishowen.ie for more info. Details 👇 Suitable for #Donegal/#North West based #Youth Workers and secondary school teachers involved in community projects on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 February 2023. It's an OCN NI Level 3 certified course which focuses on local and global justice issues and explores how these issues can be brought to life. “For me, the opportunity to deal with youth work but to bring in those areas of, more global citizenship and looking at not just our own wee towns and communities but also being able to look further afield at the impact we have but also the impact we could have, is empowering,” said a course participant. 📺Watch this video to hear more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7EKLAOyFA
Happy New Year. May the year ahead be a good one a Happy New Year. May the year ahead be a good one as we make changes and commitments in the community together. There will be great opportunities to get involved in embracing sustainability with our new Sustainability Passport project & Fairtrade with Fairtrade Fortnight to come later in the year. Looking forward to the changes we will make together this year. #changemakers #changemakersdonegal #sustainability #iamachangemaker
🎄👏Wishing all our #donegal #changemakers a v 🎄👏Wishing all our #donegal #changemakers a very Happy Christmas. A huge thanks to all our panel members and Steering Committee for their hard work this year and to everyone who got involved in our workshops. Thanks as always to Inishowen Development Partnership, Donegal ETB, Irish Aid, Self Help Africa, Concern and Trocaire. We look forward to 2023, where we will continue our work in Donegal to support and promote #sustainabledevelopment, #globalcitizenship, #fairtrade, #developmenteducation and #localtoglobal action.
We recently held an event in Buncrana, Co Donegal We recently held an event in Buncrana, Co Donegal to explore how to reduce #foodwaste this Christmas. We ate some home cooked potato chips and talked about composting as a tangible action we can all take in our homes. Our facilitator Joanne Fullerton shared this recipe for making stock powder from vegetable peelings. #foodwaste #zerowaste #donegal #local #global #globalcitizen #iamaglobalcitizen #iamachangemaker #iamachangemakerindonegal
The pre-Christmas rush can be hectic and yet we ca The pre-Christmas rush can be hectic and yet we can control some matters and be assertive to reduce our impact on the environment and contribution to the considerable food waste that can occur at Christmas. By taking small simple steps we set ourselves on the path to contributing, caring, doing, taking action. At a recent event in Buncrana, one of the ChangeMakers Facilitators Joanne Fullerton shared these tips to reduce waste this Christmas. One or two might chime with you. #FoodForThought #foodwaste #iamachangemaker #donegal #local #global #iamachangemakerindonegal #sustainability #sustainableliving #action #communityeducation #christmas
Happy Winter Solstice. Happy Winter Solstice.
🌱🎄🥕If you are considering what to gift th 🌱🎄🥕If you are considering what to gift the change maker in your life, consider a gift voucher from our partner and collaborator Joanne Butler at OURganic Gardens Donegal. They have... Gift Vouchers, Food Growing courses and Vegetable Starter Packs with fun names like the Beetroot Pack and the Pollinator Pack... to choose from. Enjoy. ⤵️ https://www.ourganicgardens.ie/gift-card https://www.ourganicgardens.ie/starterpacks https://www.ourganicgardens.ie/onlinecourses
As we approach Christmas, we reflect back on our 1 As we approach Christmas, we reflect back on our 10th Anniversary Celebration in June 2022. It was a wonderful day of discussion, idea sharing and reflection amongst Change Makers. Thanks to all our 2021-2022 Seeds of Change collaborators for turning out to showcase their great achievements. Thanks to our funder Irish Aid for believing in this global citizenship work for adults in Donegal and to our Steering Committee members and partners Inishowen Development Partnership, Donegal ETB, Trocaire, Concern Worldwide, Self Help Africa. #donegal #changemakers #globalcitizen #GlobalCitizenshipEducation #irishaid #change #local #global #action #seedsofchange
👏Join us in congratulating and wishing a Happy 👏Join us in congratulating and wishing a Happy Christmas to the great group of people who recently studied Intercultural Studies for nine weeks on a ChangeMakers QQI Level 5 Course. It was facilitated by Francine Blaché-Breen and funded by the Donegal ETB’s Community Education Support Programme and ChangeMakers Donegal. Well done to Aine, Edward, Kokou, Philomena, Barry, Philomena, Margaret, Brigid Marie, Michael, Kieran, Kelly, Karen and Geraldine. A big thank you to Francine Blaché-Breen, the course tutor. Thank you also to Donegal Travellers Project for coming on board with this course with six staff members participating and to DLDC. Thank you to Catherine Friel and the staff of Donegal ETB’s new state-of-the-art Training Centre on the Port Road; it’s bright rooms and colourful furniture and walls makes for a very supportive learning environment which our group praised.
♻️ 🎄 Different ways to compost, Christmas l ♻️ 🎄 Different ways to compost, Christmas leftover recipes and the potential to reduce food and nutrient waste in our homes this Christmas were all explored in one of our workshops earlier this week in The Exchange Inishowen community centre in Buncrana. Zero waste is a global priority which begins at a community level and more people are into composting than you would think! 'I heard worms don't like the coffee grinds', said one participant. We were joined by local people and members of the Buncrana Tidy Towns Initiative. Thanks to facilitators Joanne Fullerton and Gráinne O'Neill for a fun, warm, informative learning session which allowed for connection, conversation and inspiration in the week of #WorldSoilDay. Watch out for more #zerowaste conversations in 2023. If you would like us to travel to your location, get in touch at changemakers@inishowen.ie. 🥕 Thanks also to Donegal County Council for providing neat looking Brown Bin Starter Kits, we still have a few leftover if anyone based in Buncrana would like to collect one. #zerowaste #donegal #local #global #globalcitizen #buncrana #worldsoilday2022
We are giving out presents early this evening at Z We are giving out presents early this evening at Zero Waste Christmas? Taking place Tuesday 6 Dec 22 at 6pm at the Exchange Inishowen, all welcome. Pre-register so you receive a follow up email afterwards. Link to enable you to do that, below.
🌱 #HappyWorldSoilDay2022 & thank you to those w 🌱 #HappyWorldSoilDay2022 & thank you to those who joined Joanne Butler of OURganic Gardens and Grainne O'Neill of Síolta Chroí in Letterkenny today for 'Soil & Soul: the Only Difference is U & I. Soil test results to follow soon! #worldsoilday #worldsoilday2022 #local #global #donegal
'As Christmas approaches there’ll be plenty of f 'As Christmas approaches there’ll be plenty of food and packaging waste in many a house-hold in Donegal'....' From the soil grows materials we need for our homes, clothes, and food'. 🕕Join us at The Exchange Inishowen in #Buncrana tomorrow night (Tues 6 Dec) from 6pm to 8pm to learn all about composting. Booking link in comments.. Read more in Joanne Fullerton's Inish Times / Inish Live article. 👇 https://tinyurl.com/3asj4dkd #worldsoilday2022donegal #worldsoilday2022 #donegal #local #global #soilmatters
💚This week we mark #World Soil Day 2022 with tw 💚This week we mark #World Soil Day 2022 with two events in Donegal; Soil and Soul at Central Library Letterkenny tomorrow (Monday) at 4pm. Warm refreshments will be provided! ♻️And Tuesday evening, at The Exchange Inishowen, at 6pm for A Zero Waste Christmas? 🎄We put a question mark there to invite you to answer this question with us... by learning why composting is important. People will be given a Composting Starter Kit kindly provided by Donegal County Council. Hope to see you at Letterkenny or Buncrana. 5 REASONS WHY #SOILS4NUTRITION ARE IMPORTANT •95% of the food we eat comes from soil; •About 1/3 of our soils are already degraded; •Over the last 70 years, the level of vitamins and nutrients in food has drastically decreased; •Over 2 billion people are affected by hidden hunger or micronutrient deficiency; •Nearly 50% of our household waste could be composted to nurture our soil. #Soils4nutrition #worldsoilday2022 #donegal #local #global #SDGs #globalcitizenshipeducation Booking links in the comments below...
#WorldSoilDay is next Monday and we are hosting So #WorldSoilDay is next Monday and we are hosting Soil and Soul: the only difference is U & I at Central Library Letterkenny. All welcome. Did you know? •More than two-thirds of the world's population lacks one or more essential minerals. •Hidden hunger affects over 2 billion people worldwide and about two-thirds of the world's population is at risk of deficiency in one or more essential mineral elements. These are some examples as to why we need to take talk of soil seriously. Plus, they offer an example of the importance of connecting with the wider world around us, which is what ChangeMakers Donegal is all about. ❓What can you do? Come and find out more at Central Library Letterkenny next Monday 5 December 2022, there you’ll meet change makers Joanne Butler of @OURganic Gardens and Grainne O’Neill of @SioltaCroi in Monaghan. Book at Eventrbite, link in comments. Learn more at the video below provided by UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation for World Soil Day. #worldsoilday #donegal #local #global #changemakers #SDGs
❓What makes a house a home is a question we put ❓What makes a house a home is a question we put to some Donegal people in Greencastle this week ahead of this evening’s Inishowen Family Action Network and Inishowen Development Partnership #micaactionweek Information event in Buncrana. ‘Family, Security, Food and Music’ were words that came to the fore… ‘Decay, breakdown, never ending cycle of jobs’ are other words that were shared… Tonight, at the Gateway Hotel in Buncrana, an exhibition of postcards from the workshop is on display alongside a table setting out what ChangeMakers Donegal is all about which is to encourage action around local and global justice issues. A big thank you to those who took part in the workshop and to our own, Francine Blache-Breen, Eve Li and Kate O’Callaghan for your dedication and commitment to creating safe spaces for people to connect with one another in the community. #local #global #donegal #developmenteducation #Globalcitizens #socialjustice #economicjustice #mica
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