NEWS

OUR WORLD IRISH AID AWARDS
WATERFORD SCHOOL WINS NATIONAL AWARD

Peter Power, TD, Minister of State for Overseas Development today presented the fifth annual Our World Irish Aid Awards in Dublin Castle. Crehana National School in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Waterford won the overall Our World Irish Aid Award for their project entitled Hunger in Our World. Crehana was one of the eleven finalists attending the awards ceremony.

Speaking at the Awards, Minister Peter Power said:

"I would like to congratulate the boys and girls of Crehana National School and their teachers on their well deserved award. The entries received this year from schools all over Ireland were extremely creative and well presented. They demonstrate the high level of commitment among pupils and teachers to working with developing countries and to making a difference in the fight against global poverty and hunger. The theme of this year’s competition ‘Hunger in our World’ helps to highlight the unacceptable reality that the number of people going hungry in the world is now over one billion."

The Awards encourage primary school students across Ireland to explore the lives of children in developing countries and learn more about the Millennium Development Goals. Irish Aid, in the Department of Foreign Affairs, is the Government’s programme of assistance to developing countries.. In all, over 600 primary schools participated in the competition which is open to students across the island of Ireland.

Over two hundred primary school pupils and teachers attended the awards day at Dublin Castle, which was introduced by RTE young people’s presenter Rob Ross.

The overall winner of the Our World Irish Aid Award is Crehana National School, Carrick-on-Suir, Co.Waterford

Also honoured with Highly Commended prizes at this year’s Awards were:

School: Castleblaney N.S., Monaghan
Project Title: A Divided World

School: Nazareth House, Derry
Project Title: Our World, Our Fault, Our Problem

School: Knockerra N.S., Clare
Project Title: Stop Hunger in a World of Plenty

School: Scoil Eoin Pól, Donegal
Project Title: Hunger: There is a Cure

School: Clonburris N.S., Dublin
Project Title: Hunger – A Fact of Life/A Fact of Death

School: Vicarstown N.S., Cork
Project Title: Malawi on the Mend

School: St. Joseph’s Boys N.S,, Limerick
Project Title: The World is in Our Hands

School: St. Anthony’s Boys N.S., Wicklow
Project Title: One World Newspaper

School: St. Mary’s Boys N.S., Louth
Project Title: Hunger in Our World

School: St. Mary’s Boys N.S, Monaghan
Project Title: Hunger: Fair World = Fairtrade

The Our World Irish Aid Awards programme is proudly supported by The Irish Times, as media partner.

ENDS.

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